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Colchester Zoo has some of the best cat and
primate collections in Europe. See a White Tiger eye to eye in White
Tiger Valley, or get closer to the Zoo's Chimpanzees
at Chimp
World.
Other award winning enclosures include Penguin
Shores for our breeding group of Humboldt's
Penguins, Serengeti Plains for African lions and Kingdom
of the Wild for giraffes, rhinos and Pygmy Hippos.
Colchester Zoo is committed to conservation and
actively supports a number of different conservation groups around the
world. We help conservation by focusing our activities in several main
areas.
Breeding
programmes
Colchester zoo has around 150 species of animals,
many of these are classified as endangered or vulnerable species. 34
species at Colchester are part of EEP breeding programmes (European
Endangered species breeding programmes).
Fundraising
and Action for the Wild
Colchester Zoo actively supports a range of
different conservation projects world wide, including:
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Africat
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The Orangutan Foundation
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International Snow Leopard Trust
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International Primate Protection League
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Falklands Conservation Trust
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21st Century Tiger
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Lion Tamarins of Brazil
Educating
our visitors
An extremely important role in conservation,
through our interpretation and displays at the zoo we aim to educate
our visitors and raise general awareness of the immense diversity of
the worlds wildlife as well as many conservation and environmental
matters.
Annual
Conservation Campaigns
Every year Colchester Zoo runs a conservation
campaign alongside many other European Zoos, they all aim to raise
public awareness of critical conservation matters throughout the
world. The 2001 's campaign was The Bushmeat Trade Campaign. The aim
of this campaign was to raise awareness of the increasing problem of
the bushmeat trade in Africa, South America and parts of Asia. 158
European zoos in 25 countries were involved in this campaign and it
was our aim to raise over 1 million signatures. Collectively the
campaign gathered 1.8 million signatures and these were presented to
the European Parliament in Brussels on 6th November 2001.
The 2001/2002 campaign has already begun, The
Atlantic Rainforest campaign focuses on the indigenous wildlife of the
Atlantic Coastal Rainforest in Brazil, home to the Golden Lion
Tamarin, a critically endangered new world primate. Colchester Zoo is
aiming to raise £10,000, this money will fully support a conservation
worker, researching and tracking Lion Tamarins in the rainforest.
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