Chester Zoo
Butterflies bring a splash of colour to Chester Zoo
A TOUCH of the exotic was unveiled at Chester Zoo with the opening of a new attraction.
The zoo’s Butterfly Journey – a new exhibit home to 500 colourful butterflies opened recently.
More than 30 different species of butterfly will make their home at the zoo.
The exhibit will be the largest zoo-based butterfly house in the UK [...]
Chester Zoo to star in TV series from Monday
Nov 5 2008 Chester Chronicle
TELEVISION viewers will be taken behind the scenes at Chester Zoo with the return of the popular TV series Zoo Days.
Zoo Days, which gives an insight into the highs and lows of life at the 110-acre zoo, will be screened on Five from Monday, November 10.
The Zoo Days series, [...]
Super Lambanana settling in at Chester Zoo
CHESTER Zoo has welcomed a ‘ewe-nique’ new exhibit. Flora the Superlambanana is settling in for a stay at the zoo, where visitors will be able to see her watching over the Asiatic lions for the next few weeks.
Flora has been acquired by tourism board Visit Chester and Cheshire to help celebrate Cheshire’s Year of Gardens [...]
Tahiti trip gives Chester Zoo an insight into rare snail breed
By Staff reporter
THEY weigh little more than a gramme and are no bigger than three centimetres in length, but Chester Zoo is throwing its weight behind a conservation programme to protect some diminutive animals.
Partula snails are critically endangered and, in some cases, many species are now extinct in the wild.
Chester Zoo is home to three [...]
Zoo’s new arrival
19/ 9/2008
THIS is Chester Zoo’s latest arrival - but visitors will not be getting too close as she can only be viewed on CCTV.
Asha, an Asiatic lion at Chester Zoo, gave birth to her cub after a three and a half month pregnancy on August 29.
The new mother has been so protective that up until [...]
Rare birds hatch at Chester Zoo
CHESTER Zoo has marked two UK firsts with the hatching of two rare birds.
The arrival of two Visayan Tarictic Hornbill chicks and a Writhed Hornbill chick mark significant breeding successes for the zoo.
For 97 days, the female Visayan Tarictic Hornbill was safely tucked away inside a nest box, relying on her [...]