Using an evidence-based approach
Taking positive action from expert insight
At ZSL, we're a powerful movement of conservationists.
Collaborating with communities on the ground and around the world, we are protecting critical species, restoring healthy ecosystems and inspiring support for nature, all driven by world-leading science. Explore our projects working tirelessly to help wildlife recover:
Refugia
Co-designing a creative and equitable engagement programme for conservation science with refugee and asylum seekers
- SPOTT platform
SPOTT
Introducing buyers and producers of palm oil, rubber and timber to act more sustainably
- Under threat from fishing and habitat degradation
Project SIARC
We’re working at the cutting edge of conservation to protect angel sharks and create practical routes to their recovery.
- Putting the health of our marine ecosystem first
Marine Habitat Restoration
Marine habitats are essential to the health of our marine ecosystem, and hold environmental and social importance, providing valuable ecosystem services.
- A disease which devastates amphibian populations globally
Amphibian chytridiomycosis
- The last surviving native parrot in the Mascarenes
Echo parakeet management programme
The echo parakeet was listed as Critically Endangered in the 1980s.
- Allowing the Fody population to develop rapidly
Mauritius Fody recovery program
The fody was once common across Mauritius but experienced a substantial range contraction due to widespread habitat loss and the impacts of introduced mammalian predators.
- One of only two native frogs in Britain
Bringing back the pool frog to Britain
Historically, the pool frog was present in Britain, but following loss and damage to their habitats the species went extinct and the last native population of pool frogs, in Norfolk, was lost.
- Building a nature-positive society
The Red List Index Project
The results of the global LPI are published biennially in WWF's Living Planet Report, a leading science-based publication on the state of the planet and associated challenges and solutions.
- Urgently conserving freshwater fish in Europe
Fish Net
Find out more about ZSL's Fish Net programme which was initiated to tackle the extinction crisis affecting the planet’s freshwater fish.
