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Marwell welcomes Alan Titchmarsh MBE
March 22, 2023
Alan Titchmarsh MBE paid a visit to Marwell Zoo last week for the formal presentation of its Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development. Mr Titchmarsh attended in his capacity as […]
Helping the world’s most vulnerable species
March 9, 2023
A Marwell conservationist has contributed to a ground-breaking study about species that have been declared Extinct in the Wild. The paper, which explores the potential to bring animals and plants […]
Farewell Mei Mei – We’ll miss you
February 27, 2023
It is with great sadness that we had to euthanase our female red panda Mei Mei on Monday 27 February following a period of illness. Mei Mei, who was nine […]
Important Guest Update
February 16, 2023
Issued 17/02/23 at 09:00 We are delighted that our mains water supply has been restored! We’ll be adding additional ticket availability for today and would also like to thank our […]
Annual animal audit
February 13, 2023
We dusted off the clipboards, dug out the click counters and sharpened up our pencils ahead of Marwell’s annual animal audit this month. The huge job of counting every species […]
Guess who’s back…
February 9, 2023
Fans of our resident Linné’s two-toed sloth, Santos, will be thrilled to learn that our Energy For Life: Tropical House is reopening to guests on Saturday! As well as Santos, […]
We’re still open to prebooked guests
December 22, 2022
Updated 23/12/2022: Southern Water have now restored mains water to the zoo. We are very pleased to say we are open as normal tomorrow from 10am – 4pm. Thank you […]
A little Raya sunshine!
December 14, 2022
We’re thrilled to be able to announce the arrival of a little “Raya” sunshine in Banteng form, born to mother, Dewi, and father, Henkey, last month. Keepers have reported that […]
Finding slender-horned gazelles in the Tunisian Sahara Desert
December 1, 2022
Most of the remaining wild population of the Endangered North African slender-horned gazelle Gazella leptoceros inhabits the vast wilderness of the Grand Erg Oriental, the Great Eastern Sand Sea of […]
Goodbye to Indeever
November 30, 2022
We’re very sad to announce the death of Indeever, one of our beautiful snow leopards, who, at the age of 14 had developed arthritis and kidney disease. Indeever came to […]