Inside the Frozen Zoo, where scientists put disappearing species on ice: ‘It’s banking hope’

In a basement laboratory abutting an 1,800-acre wildlife park in San Diego, California, Marlys Houck looks up to see a uniformed man holding a blue…

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‘You sometimes feel like Noah’: the London zoo team bidding to save doomed species

News that a Socorro dove in London Zoo had produced a hatchling two weeks ago provoked joyous celebrations among conservationists. Zenaida graysoni is extinct in…

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Brexit threatening endangered species as red tape hits zoo breeding programmes

Breeding programmes designed to save critically endangered species are being jeopardised by Brexit, with zoos warning they are being prevented from transferring animals such as…

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