Technical Support

Many of our Chester Zoo staff have specialist skills and knowledge, and are strongly involved in advocacy roles, helping steer decision making groups and implementing conservation strategies nationally and internationally.

It is becoming increasingly important for us to provide professional support to our field programmes both in the UK and around the world.  This technical support links the professional expertise and opportunities of the zoo world to global conservation efforts. 

Every year, a number of Chester Zoo staff from conservation,  veterinarians, education staff and animal keepers travel abroad to work with our partners out in the field.

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  Case Study One

  For almost ten years the Zoo has been acquiring a collection of Pleurothallidinae orchids and now holds over 1,000 species.

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  Case Study Two

  In April, Becca Biddle from Chester Zoo travelled to Laikipia, Kenya, home to the Critically Endangered Black Rhino.

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  Case Study Three

  Maggie Esson travelled to Borneo to work on the education component of our Realm of the Red Ape Programme
  
  
  

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  Case Study Four

  Staff from Chester Zoo visited Assam during 2010.
  
  
  

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  Case Study Five

  3 members of staff from the Bird section visited the Mascarenes Conservation Project in Mauritius to lend their expertise.

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  Case Study Six

  Maggie Esson travelled to Kenya to help plan the Morani Field Station education facility.

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  Case Study Seven

  Alison Kelsall travelled to Indonesia and Malaysian Borneo to take part in an orangutan workshop and to visit our Realm of the Red Ape Programme partners

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