Northumberland Zoo

06/01/2025

We are CLOSED for our yearly maintenance! We have a huge list of jobs to work on and we look forward to welcoming you again when we re-open!

You can keep up-to-date with what we are up to on our Youtube channel in the meantime!

CLOSED: 6th - 24th January
OPEN: 25th - 26th January (just for the weekend!)
CLOSED: 27th - 31st January
RE-OPENING: 1st February

05/01/2025

Bit of a wet snow day, but pretty none-the-less.

📸 Keeper Claudia

01/01/2025

We are so lucky to still have Red Squirrels in our area, but we must take action if we want to keep them.

If you live in the local area, please remove any supplemental squirrel feeders to reduce the risk of disease transmission of squirrel pox from the invasive Grey Squirrels. 💔

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from all of us at Northumberland Zoo.

We hope your Christmas Meal tasted just as good as this one looks. 😋

📸 Pygmy Marmoset by Calum Percy

22/12/2024

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our amazing team as Education Manager!

This is a rare chance for someone to help us shape the future of all-things-education at Northumberland Zoo. With exciting plans on the horizon for a new Education Centre and the opportunity to be part of a developing Zoo - this is a chance you don't want to miss.

Full job description can be found on our website.

07/12/2024

Just a friendly message from your local neighbourhood Filo, the Zoo is closed today due to weather.

Stay home and stay safe.

06/12/2024

Howdy y’all.

The weather is purdy fowl tomorro’.

The Zoo ain’t gonna be open.

Stay inside and stay safe.

14/11/2024

Rescue Mission Underway

Today, alongside the Environment Agency, the National Trust and Natural England, we were on a mission to capture ‘berried’ females (females with eggs) from the Wansbeck River in an effort to give them and their offspring a fighting chance away from the current situation. We safely brought 19 females home with us today and we hope to find more over the next week.

To date, 70 endangered white-clawed crayfish have been found dead showing unusual symptoms - unusual orange patches and holes in their carapaces which have proven fatal.

Over the coming days, the Environment Agency will be continuing to remove visibly healthy native crayfish from the local catchments for a handful of quarantine sites. We have been working hard for the last 6 weeks getting an emergency rescue set-up ready to receive up to 50 berried females here at the Zoo over the next week.

As part of the Northumberland Crayfish Partnership, we hope these combined efforts will help safeguard the future of the population of this keystone species in Northumberland.

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04/11/2024

27/10/2024

It’s - what better way to appreciate it than enjoying the morning hanging out like a bat?

Turn the volume up to listen to the morning chit-chat over breakfast.

26/10/2024

We had some incredible costumes tonight!

What a great night, looking forward to tomorrow!

Very busy evening at Northumberland Zoo for the first of their Halloween events. Managed to snap these two when I finished as they were the last in line. Same again tomorrow!

26/10/2024

What better way to celebrate than with your very own plush bat to take home!

We worked with Wild Republic to create a very special Northumberland Zoo branded Livingstone’s Fruit Bat toy, made from recycled plastic bottles that are SO soft and squeezable!

Don’t forget - you can still join us TONIGHT and tomorrow night from 4:30pm, after-hours, for our Halloween event in aid of Dahari NGO - the conservation organisation working to protect the remaining populations of this critically endangered fruit bat.

What’s included?
🦇Haunted trail (not for the faint-hearted! family-friendly between 4:30 - 5:30pm)
🦇Creepy crawlies up-close
🦇See our megabats & Curious Creatures after hours*
🦇Take home a hand-made bat craft
🦇Toasted Marshmallows
🦇Spooky face-painting (ages 3+)
🦇Bear Falls Softplay Open
🦇Fancy Dress competition for Adults & Children - prizes to be won!

25/10/2024

🦇Did you know it was ?🦇

Here at the Zoo we have the UK's only population of Livingstone's Fruit Bats - a critically endangered species of mega fruit bat from the Union of the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.

This species is at risk of imminent extinction due to loss of habitats and climate change.

They are the 3rd largest bat species in the world with an impressive 1.2m wingspan!

We support Dahari NGO, a conservation charity located on the Comoros Islands who are working with the local farmers to educate and encourage them to leave areas of trees so that these bats can keep their homes.

Join us for NorthumBOOland Zoo and help us raise money for this vital charity AND have a spooky, fun-filled night for both adults and children!

Meanwhile, please appreciate these stunning portraits of some of our residents here at the Zoo - we also sell Bat Encounters where you can get up close with these amazing animals.

24/10/2024

How pretty is this! 😍

Very excited for NorthumBOOland Zoo Halloween this weekend!