As a PhD student at the Institute of Zoology (IoZ), the scientific research arm of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), I get up close and personal with chimpanzees. However, unlike my IoZ colleagues who study primates in the wild my PhD ‘fieldwork’ is currently based at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. This is a fantastic example [...]

Since 2005, I have coordinated the Garden Bird Health initiative, a research project to help us learn more about the diseases that affect garden birds across Great Britain. My role involves performing post mortem examinations on wild birds in the laboratories at the Institute of Zoology, based at ZSL London Zoo.   This work has [...]

For ten days in July I literally had my head in the clouds conducting field-work in the French Pyrenees, helping to collect data on the emergence and impacts of an amphibian disease, chytridiomycosis, in the region. The field-work, which is part of the European RACE project, is aiming to address a number of questions related [...]

The Wild Science blog brings you stories from our scientists at the Institute of Zoology and Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Our scientists are dedicated to understanding the processes causing threats to the environment, monitoring the status and trends to the world’s species and ecosystems and developing and testing new approaches [...]