Our Approach

Our wildlife park, field programmes and International Training Centre come together to deliver a unique approach to tackling today’s conservation problems. We focus on issues where we can bring the skills developed within each of these areas to bear, because we believe that they allow us to stop declines of threatened species in the short term and to build the necessary skills and capacity to protect species and habitats in the long term.

With limited means we have to chose where we work carefully. The TopSpots approach allows us to prioritise those areas in the world which contain the most unique and threatened species and habitats. Each of our projects is also reliant on collaborations with national and international governmental and non-governmental partners and we are extremely grateful for their suppport.

There are three central pillars to the work we carry out at home and in the field. First all our projects are based on sound science and wherever possible support the generation of knowledge that can be applied to other situations. However we also assess the situation and act rapidly as many of the species we work with are very close to extinction, and finally we support the development of capacity within local communities and partner organisations to build a long term future for conservation.