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This is amazing news from our partners, the Katala Foundation - but we can't become complacent. We will keep supporting their work to build back the Philippine cockatoo population. 🪶 palawan-news.com/katala-popul...

Haha, we have a lot of long-serving staff. 😀

We've reintroduced hundreds of tiny snails on a rocky Atlantic island after a zoo breeding programme pulled four species back from the brink. 🐌 Among them were 21 Geomitra coronula, perhaps the last of their kind, found clinging to life beneath a single rock... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-r...

Are you watching Force for Nature on ITV? 🐆 These stories and images are an urgent call for action. 🔥 www.itv.com/watch/force-...

Enter the world of conservation endocrinology - otherwise known as poop science! Find out: 🦓 How hormone testing helps endangered animals 🐅 Which species 'contribute' samples 🐘 And what we do with the smelly stuff 💩 Read on here: www.chesterzoo.org/news/fighting-extinction-through-endocrinology 🧪

Chester 😆

Free Guided History Tour on Tuesday 28th July,7-8pm. @heritagechester.bsky.social @wearechester.bsky.social @cwpnhs.bsky.social @socheshire.bsky.social @shitchester.bsky.social @cwva.bsky.social @chesterzoosci.bsky.social @thecountessnhs.bsky.social Book here👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guided-his...

Annabel's work is the first time oestrogen analysis has been used to monitor follicular activity (a stage in the development of eggs) in Goodfellow's tree kangaroos. Armed with this data, we may be able to reverse the species’ decline – and support more births of joeys like Walter. 🦘 4/4 🧪

Previous Tree Kangaroo fertility research concentrated only on progesterone. Annabel is broadening the focus to include oestrogen in females and male androgen patterns. In the long term, she’s also looking at how diet affects tree kangaroo health and fertility by testing faecal samples. 🧪💩 🦘 3/4

Our scientist Annabel Walker is trying to boost Tree Kangaroo numbers. She presented part of her project, "Investigating the reproductive physiology of female and male Goodfellow's tree kangaroos" at the recent British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums research conference... 🦘 2/2

It's #TestTubeTuesday, and you know what that means! 🧪 Walter the Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo captured visitor’s hearts when he emerged from his pouch this year, but his species is declining in the wild, and very few are being born in European zoos. Our scientists want to change that... 🦘 1/4

#Publication #alert! 📄 The paper outlining one of our biggest conservation success stories in recent years is now out. 🐌 "Successful reintroduction of the land snail Poecilozonites bermudensis on the Bermuda archipelago" is available to read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪🌎

It's hard not to see this as 'o no!'.

Have you heard the news? This week, we confirmed two of our projects will receive a crucial funding boost thanks to the Species Recovery Programme funded by the government and delivered by Natural England. Find out more at: www.chesterzoo.org/news/saving-orchids-and-invertebrates 🌍🌾 #Invertebrate

🙁 maybe the cats will appreciate it?

You can learn all about golden mantella conservation here: www.madagasikara-voakajy.org ☀️ If you are in the UK, you can find many golden mantella in Chester Zoo’s Tropical Realm! - Francia Lauréa SAMOELAH, comms officer for Madagasikara Voakajy, Chester Zoo’s Malagasy conservation partners. 4/4 🌍

We were delighted when the golden mantella was downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Chester Zoo supports us (Madagasikara Voakajy) by funding the Mangabe Protected area, which is the main stronghold for this species, and through sharing technical skills. 🌍 3/4

📉 In 2004, fewer than 100 golden mantella were thought to remain in the wild, placing the species on the brink of extinction. 📈 But thanks to dedicated conservation efforts led by MV and supported by partners like Chester Zoo, its population has increased to more than 1,000. 🌍 2/4

🐸 For today’s #MalagasySpeciesSpotlight, I’d like to introduce one of Madagascar’s most colourful conservation success stories: the golden mantella frog. 🌿 Found only in eastern Madagascar, they tend to live in wet and swampy areas where aquatic plants provide essential shelter. 1/4 🌍