
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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Update from N/a’an ku sê Research Programme
November 29, 2019
Action for the Wild has supported the N/a’an ku...
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Orangutan Foundation Update
November 29, 2019
In October, Action for the Wild sent a £7,000...
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Pied Tamarin Conservation Project
October 28, 2019
The latest report on Primates in Peril, listing the...
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Adoption Update from the Hornbill Research Foundation
October 28, 2019
Action for the Wild began supporting the Hornbill Research...
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