Colchester Zoo has always cared passionately about the world’s threatened species, and created its charity Action for the Wild to assist projects worldwide.

It provides both financial and technical assistance, and aims to raise awareness among local people in community conservation programmes, as well as supporting conservation research.

Since 2004, when Action for the Wild achieved charitable status, over £2 million has been donated to a broad spectrum of conservation projects worldwide, and encompasses a wide range of species from orangutans to vultures, hornbills to Komodo dragons and elephants to moths.


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Further Funding for Free the Bears
Further Funding for Free the Bears

Further Funding for Free the Bears

This year, Colchester Zoo’s Action for the Wild has...

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Funding for the Elephant Orphanage Project
Funding for the Elephant Orphanage Project

Funding for the Elephant Orphanage Project

This year, Colchester Zoo’s Action for the Wild has...

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Orangutan Foundation
Orangutan Foundation

Orangutan Foundation

The Orangutan Foundation, founded in 1990, work to protect...

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Funding for vital Capuchin Conservation
Funding for vital Capuchin Conservation

Funding for vital Capuchin Conservation

This month, funding of £4,500 has been approved to...

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