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An update on our partner Instituto Araguaia’s award-winning project in Cantao Park. Our partner Instituto Araguaia have been working hard this past summer to conclude their fire prevention work to help protect the Cantão Park and the animals which live there. This August a fire broke out from Canto do Obrieni reserve, so our partners’… Continue reading Fighting Fire for Giant Otters in Brazil

Today is the first day of Great Big Green Week, which is running from 18 – 26 September 2021, and will be the largest event for climate and nature ever seen in the UK. This week, we celebrate the ways in which communities are taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, and… Continue reading This Great Big Green Week, read all about the work that WildLife Foundation is doing to tackle climate change!

Global Tiger Day returns 29th July, celebrating the king of cats and raising awareness about the magnificent, but endangered species. Founded in 2010, when 13 tiger range countries came together to create Tx2 – the global goal was to double the number of wild tigers by the year 2022. In 2021, its time again to… Continue reading Celebrate Global Tiger Day with us on 29th July

It’s Polar Bear Week, founded by our partners Polar Bears International. The week coincides with the fall polar bear migration to Churchill, Manitoba, where polar bears gather to wait for freeze-up on Hudson Bay so they can return to hunting seals. Polar Bear Week  was founded to raise awareness of importance of sea ice to… Continue reading Polar Bear Week 2020

Today is Word Rhino Day! Here at WildLife Foundation we support Black Rhinos, the smaller of the two African rhino species. This monumental mammal has long been under threat due to human activity: from being relentlessly hunted during the 19th century, followed by continued poaching pressure during the late 20th century with a high demand for Rhino Horn… Continue reading World Rhino Day 2020

Today is Global Tiger Day, an awareness day that was launched during the last Chinese Year of the Tiger (2010), by leaders of the 13 tiger range countries and NGOs working to protect tigers from extinction. Together, these advocates for wild tigers decided that by the next Year of the Tiger (2022), the focus should… Continue reading Global Tiger Day 2020

Today is Arctic Sea Ice Day, a day founded by our partner organization Polar Bears International to draw attention to sea ice loss in the Arctic, why it matters, and how we can help. WildLife Foundation work closely with Polar Bears International to develop and drive Project Polar, our flagship project at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. This… Continue reading Arctic Sea Ice Day 2020

It’s World Otter Day! To mark the occasion, we want to focus on the amazing Giant Otter, an animal that’s classed as endangered by the IUCN. Giant Otters are native to South America and due to habitat loss, poaching, and industry, there are now fewer than 5,000 left in the wild. To give you an… Continue reading World Otter Day 2020

This Endangered Species Day, get to know the amazing animals that WildLife Foundation support – many of which also reside at Yorkshire Wildlife Park – from Polar Bears to Lemurs, Lions and Giant Otters! Learn more about our partner charities, and the projects we help to fund, including how they are coping during… Continue reading Endangered Species Day 2020

Wednesday 27th February is International Polar Bear Day, in association with Polar Bears International (PBI), our partner charity for WildLife Foundation’s flagship project, Project Polar. This combines the three objectives of WildLife Foundation: conservation, welfare and education. It is a programme for conservation and a centre for research, to help bears both in the wild and in… Continue reading It’s International Polar Bear Day! Learn how WildLife Foundation are helping to save the Polar Bear