Charities

Caring for animals at Paignton Zoo is a real team effort. Take the work that goes into looking after the zebras’ hooves. With horses it’s straightforward, but the zebras are wild animals. The task requires vets, vet nurses, keepers, a farrier, a lot of mobile technology and a general anaesthetic.

All the zebras have their feet checked periodically; today it’s the turn of male Urias. He is anaesthetised by Paignton Zoo vets Ghislaine Sayers and Jo Reynard. Equipment is set up to monitor his heart rate and breathing and to control the flow of anaesthetic gas. Once he’s stable the...

Three mountains in three countries in 24 hours – that’s the challenge facing animal staff from two local zoos.

Keepers from zoos including Paignton Zoo Environmental Park and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall are taking on the Three Peaks Challenge in aid of wildlife conservation.

Paignton Zoo keeper Lewis Rowden and Nicole Howarth, Johanna Bellerby and Emma Sweetland, all from Newquay Zoo, are part of a team of eight hoping to raise money and awareness for Critically Endangered Sulawesi crested black macaques and for Selamatkan Yaki, a conservation project for the species run by the...

With only six short weeks to go until Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life at Westpoint Exeter, women across Devon are being encouraged to jump into their training shoes and sign up for this year’s event! This week’s sunny evenings are the perfect time to begin training ahead of the 5k or brand new 10k race on Sunday 27 July.

Taking part in Race for Life at Westpoint Exeter is a great way for women of all shapes and sizes to enjoy the outdoors and get a little more active as they prepare for their event. Committing to take part, and encouraging their mums, grans, daughters, sisters...

Hundreds of employees from a waste management firm which collects waste in Devon have geared up to take part in a 2,400 mile, UK cross-country cycle tour to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The Big Ride cycle relay, organised by national recycling and waste management company SITA UK, staged a Grand Depárt from one of the company’s northern-most sites near Aberdeen on May 12 and will now finish at its most southerly facility in St Erth, Cornwall, on June 20 – six weeks later. (They are currently in Hampshire).

The winding route, designed to include as many of SITA...