We have recorded the first ever wasp spider found in the Northwest – and we've called her 'Wendy'. The large yellow-and-black spider was spotted during a biodiversity survey on our estate and has been ...

The world is abuzz with news of Leopardus tilcayo, a small wild cat that has been living secretly in the cloud forest of Bolivia. This is the first feline to be newly described to science for a ...

Less than 40% of people are willing to make their gardens more wildlife friendly, a new study has revealed. Fewer than 40% of people are willing to make their gardens more wildlife friendly, a new ...

Conservationists are celebrating a year of achievements for wildlife across Cheshire as the Networks for Nature project marks its first anniversary. Roughly 8,700 participants have already engaged in ...

Three rock hyrax pups have been born at Chester Zoo - tiny, potato-shaped animals with a surprising connection to some of the biggest animals on the planet. Born to parents Maris and Albert in late ...

Five bush dog pups, the only ones born in the UK this year, have emerged from their den here at the zoo. Born around a month ago to four-year-old mum Molly following a 65-day pregnancy, the youngsters ...

A 15-foot reticulated python named Jodie Foster has made a full recovery after becoming what is believed to be the first snake in the world to receive electrochemotherapy, a pioneering cancer ...

We've welcomed a rare babirusa piglet at Chester Zoo, giving hope to a species found on just four Indonesian islands and increasingly threatened in the wild. Little Rana is a babirusa, a species found ...

Five secretarybird chicks have hatched at Chester Zoo in a landmark breeding breakthrough that we hope will help secure the future of the endangered species. The arrival of the chicks marks the first ...

A rare anoa - the world’s smallest species of buffalo - has been born at Chester Zoo. The tiny calf arrived to mum Darcy after a 10-month-long pregnancy, weighing just 7kg and standing at around 50cm ...

The colourful songbird is so rare that survey teams searching across 12 mountains in Java failed to find a single bird in the wild. We've played a central role in developing the plan for the Javan ...

Our conservationists have just returned after spending days under the blistering sun in Chile’s hyper-arid Atacama Desert, where they painstakingly harvested Copiapoa cacti seeds for preservation.