It's World Wildlife Day!

Dear Dominic,

This year's World Wildlife Day theme is 'Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation' and at ZSL, we are working at the cutting-edge of conservation to develop and apply innovative technology to protect species around the world.

Over the last 20 years, camera trapping has revolutionised wildlife conservation. But camera trap surveys produce overwhelming amounts of data to analyse which can take weeks, even months, to go through. That's where ZSL's initiative, Instant Wild, comes in. The Instant Wild app uses people power to scale up important animal monitoring work, by getting users to identify species in live videos and images from camera traps around the world.

Read on to find out more and hear about some other recent conservation successes. If you'd like to support ZSL's vital conservation work, please consider donating to help us continue our global work.

Help us to continue our vital work

Download the Instant Wild app

Join Instant Wild's community of 5,000 users and make a positive impact on conservation by identifying animals in live images and videos from camera traps at global sites. Your contributions help ZSL track key information on threatened wildlife and ecosystems.

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Latest conservation news from ZSL

Identifying snakes with technology

In September, a London Zoo Zookeeper and EDGE Fellow teamed up in Kenya to protect the endemic Kenyan horned viper, using photographic identification as a research tool to document this elusive species in their environment and help unravel the mysterious lives these snakes lead.

Saving species from extinction

The scimitar horned oryx marks the first species to be downlisted to endangered by IUCN Red List - the direct result of a globally coordinated effort supported by ZSL. Bred at Whipsnade Zoo and released into the wild, there is now a self-sustaining population thriving in their native habitat within Chad's Ouadi Rimé, at the Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve.

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Conservation project for “ocean superheroes” wins big in UK Parliament

Along with our partners Blue Marine Foundation and British Marine, we are celebrating a win for wildlife for our work on The Wild Oysters Project. Voted for by members of Parliament and the House of Lords, The Wild Oyster Project won the inaugural Great British Wildlife Restoration award in the new awards created by BIAZA (British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums).

Support ZSL's Work

A donation of £10 could power a camera trap to monitor threatened species in remote habitats and help ZSL to continue our vital conservation work monitoring wildlife and the environment.

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