Latest ZSL Whipsnade Zoo News

ZSL have put together a weekend of elephant themed fun with talks, activities and so much more, all in aid of conserving the elephant population across the globe.

Rare species to move in at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo as an African hunting dog pack arrive this Easter

Centre for Elephant Care to open at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo this Easter

Motion sensitive camera traps have revealed for the first time what the animals at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo get up to after dark.

Boo at the Zoo week at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo Saturday 22 October – Monday 31 October 2016

International conservation charity ZSL launches new campaign Today the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has launched Imagine a World without Wildlife, a campaign to inspire conservation action, by encouraging people to truly consider what a planet without wildlife would mean for them.

#OneLess campaign launched on World Oceans Day As part of a new campaign to protect the world’s oceans from the devastating impacts of plastic pollution, ZSL London and Whipsnade Zoos have become the first in the UK to remove all single-use plastic water bottles from their shelves. 

Saturday 25 June 2016

ZSL Animal Photography Prize exhibit opens Saturday 27 February 2016 Visitors at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, will not only be entranced by elephants, rhinos and lions this spring, as the winning images from the 2015 ZSL Animal Photography Prize are unveiled in a beautiful new exhibition.

February half-term at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo Saturday 13 to Sunday 21 February 2016

Santa in residence at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo from 5 December 2015

Love was in the air for ZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s chimpanzees as they tucked into tasty treats dished up in heart shaped hampers to get them in the mood for Valentine’s Day. 

Saturday 15 February to Sunday 23 February 2014

  ZSL Whipsnade Zoo kicked off the New Year with its annual stocktake – the mammoth task of counting every single animal at the Zoo. 

Sporting fluffy coats of downy feathers, a pair of hand-reared penguin chicks at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo snuggle together in the Zoo's nursery.

An Amur tiger, one of the rarest and most endangered animals on the planet, is enjoying his new surroundings at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.

Walk across red hot embers at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo... if you're brave enough. For the first time, daring (stupid?) challengers will be able to face the fire at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and raise money for conversation along the way by taking on the Zoo's new Fire Walk.