The owner of Colchester Zoo has vowed to maintain the attraction as a conservation project and not as a "theme park". Speaking on the Essex zoo's 60th anniversary, Dr Dominique Tropeano also said ...

Colchester Zoo keepers are celebrating their female Amur leopard, Esra, giving birth to two healthy cubs. The births are ...

Rare Amur leopards have been born at Colchester Zoo after mum Esra gave birth to two cubs. The species normally live in ...

Meet the real 'Essex lion'... a ginger cat called Tom who sparked a two-day police lion hunt ...

A commercial zoo has announced plans to become a charitable trust and rebuild much of its site. Managers at Colchester Zoo in Essex said it would be known as Colchester Zoological Society as of ...

Frank and Helena Farrar opened the zoo on what was a 25-acre plot in 1963 The owner of Colchester Zoo has vowed to maintain the attraction as a conservation project and not as a "theme park".

That was my foot in the door, and they took me on as an employee. I left to join London Zoo's reptile team and then Colchester Zoo's displays team, where I gained the confidence to talk in front ...

Credit: Nina Day/Colchester Zoo/Cover Images This image shows: Esra. Colchester Zoo keepers are celebrating that in the early hours of the morning on 24 November their female Amur leopard, Esra, gave ...

Keepers have announced that its female amur leopard, Esra, has given birth to two healthy cubs, a month before Christmas Eve, ...

Staff at Colchester Zoo have welcomed the arrival of two critically endangered cubs. The amur leopards were born at the north Essex zoo during the early hours of November 24.

An early Christmas present has arrived at Colchester Zoo with the birth of two adorable leopard cubs. Amur leopard Esra gave ...

Colchester Zoo has given visitors an update on one of its newest arrivals. Last month the north-Essex zoo welcomed a green anaconda from Hertfordshire Zoo. Since his arrival, Nino has remained in a ...