Back from the Brink
Donate today and help us to bring more endangered species back from the brink of extinction. Please donate to our Back from the Brink appeal today.
We are in the midst of an ongoing, global extinction crisis.
Global populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have halved since 1970. The UN estimates that more than one million species could be wiped out in our lifetime. We must act now to save precious species from extinction.
Preventing extinction is in our DNA, and it’s across everything we do each and every day. We are a world-leading conservation charity at the forefront of international breeding programmes that are saving animal and plant species from extinction.
Our work plays a direct role in bringing back multiple species from the brink of extinction. In fact, 169 of the animal species in our care are managed as part of international breeding programmes.
Your support will help us save species from extinction
Please support today
Could fund a week's breeding ecology field research of the critically endangered bleeding toad
would pay for sample bags, sharpies and biodegradable glitter so we can identify and collect samples from endangered animals and learn about their reproductive physiology.
can help us to buy supplies for in-house hormone testing for one of our black rhinos or okapis so we can diagnose and monitor a pregnancy
could help us build artificial nests for breeding hornbill pairs in the wild
How we're helping to counter the impacts of climate change...
Your support will help us to work with partners worldwide to prevent the extinction of vulnerable wildlife. Your support is helping us to..
Save the Desertas Island snail...
... our conservation experts worked tireless to being this tiny snail species back from the “edge of extinction” after more than 1,300 born in a world-first breeding programme here at Chester Zoo were released into the wild.
Save the black rhino from extinction...
... Since our conservation physiology lab opened in 2007, we have bred 12 black rhino calves at the Zoo. Now the scientists behind this success are lending their technology and expertise to help to improve breeding rates and rhino relocations in Kenya, and we have helped reintroduce healthy, genetically viable rhinos to Rwanda.
Save the Sumatran tiger...
... We are also helping overseas partners to breed species that are extinct in the wild, like the Sumatran tiger, with the aim of reintroducing them to their original habitats.
Find out more about our work
Your support directly helps to fund our work - in the zoo and across the world. Find out more about the areas of conservation work our experts carry out every day.
