A penguin at a zoo in Devon has laid a golden egg.
The macaroni penguin, named Yoyo, laid the egg at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo, on Sunday. The charity’s Executive Director Simon Tonge – a bird expert and former zoo keeper - said: “The eggshell has a real golden sheen – it is rare but not unheard of. I have been around birds for 35 years and this is only the second one I have...
Raising money can prove difficult but should always be fun - and so it was at Ashfords Plymouth office's hugely successful charity quiz last night at the City College Plymouth restaurant.
A record breaking £2,000 was for raised for our chosen Charity of the Year, Children's Hospice South West at the Plymouth Office's annual Charity Quiz.
Dedicated keepers at Paignton Zoo in Devon are caring for a rare baby that weighed little more than a CD at birth.
The pygmy slow loris – which weighed just 22 grams when it was born - was one of twins born to a first-time mother. One twin did not survive, and keepers stepped in to save the other when its mother abandoned it.
A Devon conservation charity has found a rare African frog after a painstaking search lasting three years.
The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, which runs Paignton Zoo, Living Coasts in Torquay and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, carries out fieldwork with rare amphibians in the mountains of Eastern Tanzania.
The work is funded by zoo visitors and supporters and carried out with...
Members of a local gym teamed up to help Paignton Zoo’s orang utans.
A group from Winners 2000 Fitness in Paignton worked in heavy mud to build a new climbing frame on one of the islands used by the great apes.
Emily Rogers from Paignton Zoo said: “They made light work of the huge task. There were more than twenty large wooden poles that needed erecting on the island and the...
A Devon Freewheeler was lost for words when fraternal organisation the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB) announced the result of their year of fundraising for the charity.
Plymouth Provincial Grand Primo Mick Navesey handed over a cheque for the grand sum of £3,079 to volunteer rider and Operations Director of the Devon Freewheelers, Neil Gardner.
A Devon conservation charity is coming to the aid of a native species under threat from its bolder American cousins.
The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, based at Paignton Zoo, has teamed up with the Environment Agency and Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust to help the white-clawed crayfish.
The white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) is one of the...
This year Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium, is celebrating fish in all their forms. Fantastic Fish is a year-long event promoting sustainable fishing and a greater awareness of just how great fish are. There will be fish trails, fish talks and fish arts and crafts.
Clare Rugg, operations manager at the charity, said: “Some fish species are part of the collection -...
Local support group, HMSA Plymouth is celebrating after receiving a £300 donation from the Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund.
Part of the nationwide charity, Hypermobility Syndromes Association, the group provides support and information to those affected by one of the hypermobility syndromes. The charity helps young people and their parents to understand the condition and also operates a...
Two Devon brothers have gone to Paris in search of love – but there’s a sting in the tail.
The two are venomous stingrays from Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo.
The boys – with the unpromising names of Spotty and Sheldon - have moved to an aquarium in the French capital located right next to the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
