Conservation & Fundraising
We pride ourselves on the strong relationships we have built with several conservation charities. Throughout the year Noah's Ark hosts several conservation events, each with a different flagship species. The events strive to inform the public about the conservation status of various species, what the threats are and how the public can help. The events are often interactive and encourage visitors to engage in the message.
Read our conservation policy below
Spectacled Bear Conservation - Peru
Alongside fundraising, Noah’s Ark has supported the purchase of tracking collars for spectacled bears in Peru. These collars provide vital research data, helping conservationists better understand bear movements and behaviour in the Machu Picchu region and informing future conservation work.
We also contribute by sharing behavioural research and observations from the spectacled bears in our care, supporting a greater understanding of this remarkable species.
Through this partnership, we are helping connect the bears at Noah’s Ark with conservation in the wild, inspiring visitors to care about spectacled bears and the landscapes they depend on.
Safina
Who are they?
Safina Lion Conservation Fund is a passionate conservation charity dedicated to raising awareness and funds for wild lion conservation and education projects across Africa. Inspired by zoo lions, the charity is named after a lioness called Safina, who was born at Linton Zoo in Cambridgeshire. Safina was also the grandmother of our male lion Tau.
What do they do?
Safina works closely with zoos and conservation organisations to support projects that protect lions and encourage coexistence between people and wildlife. Lions are now extinct in 25 African countries, with wild populations continuing to decline due to habitat loss, human conflict, and poaching.
The charity supports frontline conservation initiatives including Lion Guardians — a programme working across Kenya and Tanzania to protect lions while supporting local communities. Their work includes monitoring lion prides, reducing conflict with farmers and educating local people about conservation.
Why did Noah’s Ark start working with them?
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm is passionate about helping visitors connect with the challenges lions face in the wild. Our partnership with Safina allows us to directly support conservation projects protecting the species while also inspiring our visitors to care about the future of lions. Our lions act as ambassadors for their wild counterparts helping to raise awareness of the challenges faced by lions in the wild.
When did we start working with them and what do we do?
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm began supporting the Safina Lion Conservation Fund in 2017. Since then, our Big Cat Keepers and engagement teams have worked closely with the charity through fundraising events, awareness campaigns and educational activities, including World Lion Day celebrations and our Somerset Safari Lates events.
More recently, funds raised by Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm have helped support the Better Bomas project, which works to reduce conflict between lions and local farming communities by creating stronger, predator-proof livestock enclosures. We have also contributed towards the refurbishment of a tracking collar for a male lion, supporting the vital conservation work carried out by Kope Lion in Tanzania.
Elephants for Africa
Who are they?
Elephants for Africa is a conservation charity dedicated to protecting endangered African elephants through research, education and community collaboration. Established in 2008, they are one of the longer-running elephant research charities working in the region. Their work is based in Botswana, in and around the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park and the Boteti region, one of Africa's most important strongholds for elephants.
What do they do?
Their work focuses on increasing understanding of male elephants, reducing human-wildlife conflict and inspiring the next generation of conservation leaders. Young male elephants leaving the breeding herds are disproportionately involved in human-elephant conflict, often raiding crops as they disperse into farmland, while older bulls play a stabilising social role for younger males. Despite this, male elephants have historically been under-studied and misunderstood compared to breeding herds, leaving a gap in conservation planning and mitigation. Since beginning field observations in 2012, Elephants for Africa has built one of the longest-running behavioural datasets on male African elephants.
They work closely with local communities to encourage long-term coexistence between people and elephants. Their community work helps protect over 2,500 hectares of high-risk farmland from human-elephant conflict, while their environmental education programme, EleFun, reaches over 300 rural schoolchildren and young people across Botswana each year, building the next generation of local conservation leaders.
Why did Noah’s Ark start working with them?
As home to African bull elephants, Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm is passionate about supporting projects that protect elephants in the wild and help address the growing challenges they face. We were particularly inspired by Elephants for Africa’s work studying and protecting male elephants, whose behaviours and conservation needs are often less understood.
When did we start working with them and what do we do?
In 2025, Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm began fundraising for Elephants for Africa. We support the charity through conservation education delivered in our workshops, keeper talks and onsite interpretation, helping visitors learn more about the challenges facing elephants in the wild.
We also raise funds through our elephant experiences, World Elephant Day activities and wider engagement programmes, helping to support the charity’s ongoing research, education and community conservation work in Africa.
Supporting conservation around the world
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World Land Trust
We are proud to support World Land Trust, a charity that protects threatened habitats and species through local conservation partners.
We support World Land Trust’s Action Fund, helping them respond quickly when urgent conservation action is needed. We also use Carbon Balanced Paper for our maps and leaflets, balancing the carbon impact of our printed materials by supporting forest protection projects.
Together, these actions help protect precious habitats for wildlife, people and future generations.
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Helping Rhinos
Noah’s Ark supports Helping Rhinos, a conservation charity working to protect rhinos and their habitats in the wild.
Through visitor awareness, education and fundraising, we help support vital rhino conservation work, including anti-poaching efforts, habitat protection and community-led projects that give rhinos a safer future.
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Elephant-Human Relations Aid Namibia
Noah’s Ark supports Elephant-Human Relations Aid, a conservation organisation in Namibia helping desert elephants and local communities live safely alongside one another.
Through education and fundraising, including funds raised in 2025, we help support practical, community-led conservation for elephants in the wild.
Supporting conservation locally
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The Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust
Noah’s Ark supports the work of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust, a UK charity dedicated to protecting reptiles, amphibians and the habitats they depend on.
ARC manages nature reserves, carries out scientific research and leads conservation projects across the UK to help species such as newts, frogs, toads, lizards and snakes thrive in the wild.
Here at Noah’s Ark, we contribute by carrying out research in our conservation pond, monitoring newts and their habitats. This helps add to important conservation data and supports wider efforts to protect these fascinating native species.
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Bat Conservation Research
Noah’s Ark is proud to take part in the North Somerset Bat Survey, helping to monitor and protect native bat species in our local area. In 2025, our team carried out surveys across six nights and recorded seven different species of bats on site.
This important work helps build a better understanding of local bat populations and supports wider efforts to protect these fascinating nocturnal animals and the habitats they rely on. If you live in North Somerset, you can get involved too by following the link below.
Breeding Programmes
Noah's Ark is home to several threatened species including the Vulnerable Lowland Tapirs, African Elephants and Spectacled Bears, the Endangered Crowned Cranes and Siamang Gibbons and the Critically Endangered Black and White Ruffed Lemurs, Bactrian Camels and White-headed Vultures. We are working with the European Breeding Programme to help maintain the captive populations.
Rescue Tiger Appeal
Noah's Ark set out it's biggest and boldest mission to date, to build a new habitat for a tiger in need of a forever home, Aqua. Aqua’s journey began in 2019 when he was one of 10 tigers rescued from appalling conditions at the Poland-Belarus border after being trafficked. Sadly, for one of those tigers, it was too much to bear, and they didn't make it. Rehabilitated in Spain and he is now awaiting his forever home at Noah's Ark.
Last year, we were racing to raise £175,000 to build a special rescue tiger home for Aqua. With your support, we built a new habitat for Aqua, giving him the safe, spacious enriching home he desperately needed.
We are now asking for the public to support Aqua's new beginnings.
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