🎉Over 100,000 captive-bred Bermuda snails were released into the wild, bringing the once-thought-extinct species back from the brink!
🐌The species is now considered safe and secure, a "once in a career" moment as described by the team behind it.
🤝This achievement is the result of collaborative efforts between the Bermuda government, organisation Biolinx Environmental Research and Chester Zoo. 

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​*Post drafted by guest content creators Eleanor Albrow, Patrick Jessop and Ella Noel.

Another milestone in the conservation of the European bison, with the release of 18 individuals in the Shadagh National Park, Greater Caucasus. This reintroduction project is jointly led by WWF Germany and Zoo Berlin, and 12 of the released bison (3 males, 9 females) were born in European zoos. The other six joined from the bison project in the Rothaar Mountains. 

 

​This species went extinct in the wild in the 1920s, and it was only thanks to the animals that remained in zoos, and collaborative conservation projects, including reintroductions, that the species bounced back and can again be seen across Europe and Central Asia.

🎉Great news to start off 2026... Perth Zoo announced that a Western Ground Parrot chick has successfully hatched and left the nest - a first for this species in human care!

📈Behind this achievement are intensive monitoring and research efforts into the species' breeding biology, which the zoo team has carried out since they received their first Western Ground Parrots in 2014.

🦜With only 100-150 estimated to remain in the wild, successful breeding in human care is an important step towards the conservation of this Critically Endangered species.

Four numbats bred at Perth Zoo have been released into the wild, in the Dryandra Woodland National Park (Western Australia). The four animals were released across different sites where the local government is working to remove non-native predators such as foxes and feral cats. These are part of wider efforts to protect and recover native wildlife in the area.

 

Perth Zoo is the only zoo in the world to breed this species and has released over 300 numbats into the wild in the last 30 years.

Several European zoos and other breeding centres have sent 115 ground squirrels for release into the wild in Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech Republic, as part of a project led by the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic.

 

The wild populations of this threatened species have suffered steep declines mainly due to habitat loss. The release of captive-bred animals aims to both reinforce existing wild populations and establish new ones, and is part of wider conservation efforts for the species.