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With 130+ members across the isles and beyond, we champion animal welfare, conservation, research, and education.
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🐿️ New blog! 🌰
With Red Squirrel Awareness Week coming up, Judi Dunn (Wildwood Trust) tells us where we are their conservation story...and how zoos can help 👇
biaza.org.uk/news/detail/blog-a-call-to-arms-or-paws-raising-the-profile-of-the-charismatic-red-squirrel
📷 Wildwood Kent
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A must-read article from
@biaza.bsky.social's Catherine Barton.
#Zoos doing it right!
@chesterzoosci.bsky.social
@thedeephull.bsky.social
Best Team Winners: Gonzalo Silva Cruz & Paul Stoker @zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
"We celebrate excellence across many categories. Sometimes a team embodies more than one. This team Brings Innovation, Goes the Extra Mile and Develops in a Role.”
Today I spoke at @zslofficial.bsky.social about the commercial trade of civets in Vietnam, it's One Health implications and the power of bridging Insitu and Exsitu conservation. #civets #wildlifetrade #MultiSpeciesFutures @biaza.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to all #volunteer nominees and winners in the London Heritage Volunteer Awards 2025 #LHVA2025 which we had the pleasure of announcing earlier. Read on to find out about our award winners...
@heritagevols.bsky.social #lovols
Alt: A gold trophy with a laurel wreath around it and the words well done on a gold ribbon.
Red tape continues to stifle zoo conservation:
Alongside zoo conservationists like ZSL, EAZA and ourselves, RZSS is calling for Defra to amend legislation for zoo animal welfare 🦏
Read more:
biaza.org.uk/news/detail/zoos-urge-defra-to-tackle-red-tape-preventing-rare-animal-transfers
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London Heritage Volunteering Group
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New for October!🍂Download the latest issue of our e-magazine: biaza.org.uk/downloader/3078
BIAZA Browse features the latest in all things zoo and aquarium 🌍
🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎉
We hope 2026 brings you closer to nature💕🐠 (Perhaps your resolution could be to support wildlife? 😉🐝)
We're looking forward to a jam-packed 2026 for zoos, aquariums, and all of us here at BIAZA 🙌
We might even post more on Bluesky! 🦋
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#AlliesForWildlife 🤝
Last week, it was great to be able to work alongside fellow @biaza.bsky.social member, @edinburghzoo.bsky.social, to share knowledge and expertise on providing dedicated expert care to a colony of #GentooPenguins.
Our Crew loved meeting the Rockhoppers and King penguins too! 🐧
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Dr Jes Hooper
Thank you to @chesterzoosci.bsky.social and @biaza.bsky.social for the chance to present my research on visitor effects on wild dogs at today’s BIAZA Research Conference. This was my first ever conference, and my first time presenting, so I really appreciated the friendly supportive atmosphere
The Deep Hull
Palm oil remains a contentious product, but cross-collaboration is paving the way toward more sustainable practices.
Catherine Barton, Policy Lead Deforestation-Free Commodities, wrote about the importance of buy-in (and what you are buying) here: biaza.org.uk/news/detail/...
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The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the professional body representing the best zoos and aquariums in the UK and Ireland.
The first speed talk session covered jellyfish lightning, wild dog visitor effects (with Bayesian stats!), baboon contraception and cassowary calls. A great showcase of the variety of research that goes on in BIAZA Zoos #BIAZARC2025
