The Aspinall Foundation

The Aspinall Foundation, a world leading conservation charity, together with the Eastern Cape’s Department of Economic Development, Mount Camdeboo Private Reserve, Wild911 and a task team of elephant and translocation experts, are translocating a...

We often mention our holistic approach to conservation and involving local communities at our projects in Africa, Madagascar and Indonesia is an important element of the work you are helping to support.

Thursday 26th September 2019

This month we welcomed a red panda male, named Siwan, to Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve as part of a breeding programme designed to help boost the numbers of the dwindling wild population.

Find out from keeper, Daisy, what a typical day is like caring for the primates at Howletts Wild Animal Park:

We'd like to introduce you to Javan gibbon, Sigit, who will be leaving Howletts soon to make the incredible journey back to the wild. Sigit will be transferred to our centre in Java along with his partner Iya, fellow Howletts residents Padang and...

Rhino keeper, Claire, has been giving us an insight into what it's like to work with the critically endangered black rhinos housed at Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve.

A female greater kudu calf was born at Howletts on the 7th July 2019. It wasn’t the first birth for the mother, named Adana, but unfortunately it did not end well. She suffered a prolapse overnight whilst giving birth and sadly died early that...

Madagascar truly is unique, with so many species on the island found nowhere else in the world.

Whether primates join our Back to the Wild programme because they have been rescued from the illegal trade in wildlife, or because they have been born and raised in captivity, the process of preparing them for a life of freedom takes time,...