Discover Animals

Letting parts of your garden grow wild with long grass can increase butterfly numbers by up to 93% and attract a wider range of species, according to new research from leading wildlife charity Bu...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/new-study-proves-wild-gardens-boost-butterfly-numbers/

A campaign for Scotland to become the first Rewilding Nation in the world, backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, has smashed an ambitious fundraising bid to raise £200,000 in just six days...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/rewilding-nation-leonardo-dicaprio-hits-target/

Steve Backshall, one of Britain’s best-loved and most intrepid naturalists and television presenters, is returning to Longleat in Wiltshire for the first time in over a decade this May half ter...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/steve-backshall-longleat-half-term/

Earlier this year, Plymouth announced £11.6 million funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to create the UK’s first National Marine Park in Devon. This will be part of a £22 million ...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/uks-first-national-marine-park-boost-nature-plymouth/

Get to know the planet’s most mysterious creatures this Easter at London Zoo as the world-famous conservation zoo unveils a brand-new experience – the Secret Life of Reptiles and Amphibians.�...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/secret-life-reptiles-amphibians-opens-london-zoo/

Our latest Book on the Bird Table is the wonderful Saving Sun Bears by Dr Sarah Pye, which follows the inspirational work of Malaysian ecologist Dr Wong Siew Te or ‘papa bear’ as he tries to ...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/book-bird-table-saving-sun-bears/

The National Trust team who care for Brownsea Island in Dorset are looking forward to welcoming back day visitors when it re-opens on Saturday 16th March. Discover Animals’ Geoff Moore made a t...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/spring-new-adventure-brownsea-island/

A Cape porcupine family at the UK’s largest zoo has grown from three to four, with a spiky new baby joining the prickle – with the little one starting to venture outside just in time for Moth...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/baby-cape-porcupine-quill-melt-your-heart/

In this short film, Discover Animals’ videographer Geoff Moore visits Florida to explore Sawgrass Recreation Park and meet its rescued alligators as well as those living wild. He finds out some...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/meet-alligators-florida/

Dedicated rangers needed patience, invention and tasty treats to get the measure of all creatures great and small at Yorkshire Wildlife Park‘s annual animal audit. Each of the hundreds of anima...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/yorkshire-wildlife-park-animal-audit/

Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire is inviting kids to live out their dreams and spend the night at soft play, with the launch of Hullaba-snooze – a brand new sleepover experience at Whipsnade Zoo�...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/whipsnade-zoo-launches-soft-play-sleepover/

Today marks International Day of Women and Girls in Science and The Wildlife Trusts are celebrating some of their colleagues and their achievements. The organisation is fortunate to be supported ...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/international-women-girls-science/

Children can start looking for signs of Spring this February half term with the Green Tree Badge initiative, which puts trees and nature centre stage for young people, parents, teachers and commu...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/earn-green-tree-badge/

London Zoo has welcomed a critically endangered western lowland gorilla infant. The tiny infant was born at the conservation zoo to mum Mjukuu at 9:34am on Wednesday 17th January 2024, following ...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/critically-endangered-gorilla-born-london-zoo/

Discover Animals’ videographer Geoff Moore recently visited Vienna to check out Europe’s first dedicated cat cafe, which opened in 2012. Just a stone’s throw away from the city’s busy sho...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/europe-first-cat-cafe-vienna/

The amazing moment a rare baby southern white rhino was born at West Midland Safari Park has been caught on CCTV. Keepers watching the live footage behind-the-scenes saw the female calf arrive at...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/birth-baby-white-rhino-camera/

The world’s largest garden wildlife survey – the RSPB‘s Big Garden Birdwatch – returns this month, with hundreds of thousands of people watching and counting the UK’s garden birds over ...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/take-part-2024-big-garden-birdwatch/

London Zoo carried out its annual stocktake this week, a mammoth task which involves tallying up every furred, feathered and scaled creature in its care.  The conservation zoo is home to more th...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/annual-stocktake-london-zoo-2024/

As the festive cheer of Christmas fades, a magical world awaits at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire where Glow Marwell is still in full swing. Beat the gloom of the Chrimbo Limbo with uplifting light dis...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/magical-journey-chrimbo-limbo-marwell/

The Wildlife Trusts are encouraging people across the country to brighten up wintery days by signing up for their 12 Days Wild challenge by doing one wild thing each day from 25th December to 5th...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/banish-winter-blues-wildlife-trusts-12-days-wild/

Nature organisation Earthwatch is highlighting its ‘Champion a Tiny Forest Tree’ campaign this Christmas as an alternative gifting option. Whether your favourite tree is an Oak, Hazel, Rowan,...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/champion-tiny-forest-tree-christmas/

The New Forest National Park Authority is celebrating receiving £1.4 million to connect young people to nature and help communities across the region tackle climate change as part of the Youth f...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/youth-climate-nature-scheme/

In one of the first studies of its kind, scientists from the University of Portsmouth and The Donkey Sanctuary are investigating the effects of plastic pollution on land-based animals in Kenya, s...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/damaging-impact-plastic-pollution-donkeys/

Tigers, meerkats and squirrel monkeys kicked off the countdown to Christmas at London Zoo today, opening three very different advent calendars.  Sumatran tiger cubs Zac and Crispin got paws-on ...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/countdown-christmas-london-zoo/

Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster is celebrating the birth of one of the world’s smallest antelopes. The tiny Kirk’s dik-dik calf, named Acorn, will soon be winning the hearts of visitors ...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/ywp-celebrates-birth-baby-dik-dik/

Our latest Book on the Bird Table is Home by Isabelle Simler, translated by Vineet Lal and published by Quarto. Home is a beautiful book of reflective poems that look at all sorts of homes made a...

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/book-bird-table-home/