Chester Zoo
Did you know that Chester Zoo has over 35,000 animals, from an aardvark to a chimpanzee, a cheetah to a giant anteater, and the tallest giraffe to the tiniest golden mantella frog? But it’s much more than a tourist attraction, it’s much more than a zoo – it’s an organisation that is actively preserving and influencing the future of the world that we know today.
As part of the North of England Zoological Society (NEZS), Chester Zoo invests more than £20 million in conservation and education activities each year. They also train 297 conservationists and welcome over 1.6 million visitors to the zoo. Overseas, they were responsible for 139 international breeding programmes in 2021 too. What’s more, they have in excess of 2,500 different plant species.