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Published 10.12.2014 Bristol Zoo’s gorilla comes of age and gets ready to say farewell

Western lowland gorilla Namoki is getting ready to bid Bristol Zoo farewell, before she moves to Belfast Zoo

Published 10.12.2014 Blog from the field

Welcome to the Bristol Zoological Society’s first ‘Blog from the field’.

Published 10.12.2014 Thousands of penguin chicks rescued and reintroduced to the wild to save a species

African penguins are now an endangered species and it remains critical to save every individual possible to bolster numbers in the wild.

Published 10.12.2014 Bristol Zoo marks 50th anniversary of endangered species list

Throughout the month of November, Bristol Zoological Society is celebrating the 50th anniversary of International Union for Conserving Nature (IUCN) Red List, which identifies the world’s most threatened species and facilitates their conservation.

Published 10.12.2014 People’s Plant Collection project in the running for £120,000 to transform Bristol with native wild flowers

The People’s Plant Collection, a Bristol project, is gearing up for a chance to win £120,000 of funding from the Big Lottery Fund to help communities transform their area through Grow Wild, a UK mass participation programme.