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Wild Planet Trust - Newquay Zoo

Wild Planet Trust - Newquay Zoo Trenance Park Newquay Cornwall TR7 2LZ


Award-winning Newquay Zoo was started in 1968 by the local authority and is the largest zoo in Cornwall. It became part of the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2003. Home to many endangered species, the Zoo participates in a range of managed breeding programmes and overseas conservation projects. Set in sub-tropical gardens, Newquay is an intimate and family-friendly collection. 

Newquay Zoo is the…

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Spotted on Site 1st Jan, 2024
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English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark welcomes Wild Plant Trust as new Geopark Core Partner 15th Jan 2024 The English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark is delighted to announce the addition of Wild Plant Trust as a Geopark Core Partner, further enriching the diverse…
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New baby capuchin steals hearts at Newquay Zoo 30th Mar 2023 This month, keepers at Newquay Zoo were delighted by the birth of a baby white-throated capuchin monkey. The infant was born overnight between Monday…
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Wild Planet Trust helps endangered species thrive in Devon 3rd Mar 2023 Wild Planet Trust has been helping to boost numbers of the endangered white-clawed crayfish by releasing captive bred animals into ‘ark sites’…
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Saving marine life in Tor Bay 10th Feb 2023 Wild Planet Trust has hosted the first of what is set to be a series of events designed to bring together marine organisations, volunteers and charities…
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Schools go free in 2023 at Newquay and Paignton Zoo 22nd Nov 2022 Newquay Zoo has announced that school groups can visit for free throughout 2023 as part of a momentous campaign to mark the 100-year anniversary of their…
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Tor Bay’s seagrass mooring buoys receive Royal attention 20th Jul 2022 Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall visited Torquay’s historic Torre Abbey on Wednesday 20 July and learnt about Tor…
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Hundreds of ‘lost’ species identified in new research 8th Jul 2022 Bramble Cay melomys, golden toads, Tasmanian tigers, Caribbean monk seals and, of course, the dodo. These are all species that we know to be extinct –…
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Newquay Zoo's civets participate in ground-breaking research 28th Jun 2022 Newquay Zoo’s Owston’s civets are leading the way in a ground-breaking reproductive project to learn more about these rare and mysterious…
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Newquay Zoo launches project to make Newquay the first Sustainable Palm Oil Town 22nd Apr 2022 Newquay Zoo has announced that they are working in collaboration with local organisations and businesses to try to make Newquay the first Sustainable…
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Blog: IWD - Dr Holly Farmer, Research Manager 3rd Mar 2022 To celebrate the run up to International Women's Day on 8th March, BIAZA are sharing the stories and voices of women from across the BIAZA membership.…
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Operation Save Our Civets – BIAZA zoos collaborating to conserve an endangered species 4th Oct 2020 Three BIAZA zoos working together to conserve endangered civets.
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Newquay’s Gem – Aviary Development at Newquay Zoo 17th Sep 2019 Newquay Zoo's new aviary to help Southeast Asian songbirds threatened by the unsustainable caged bird trade.
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Newquay Zoo’s world first 16th May 2019 A zoo keeper at Newquay Zoo is hand-rearing a rare and beautiful jungle mammal, if Dave is successful, it will be a world first – no one has ever hand reared an Owston‘s civet to adulthood.
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Giving the shirts off their backs 15th Aug 2018 Three zoos in the South West are recycling old uniforms to help hard-pressed conservationists across Africa.
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