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Annual Report 2025
There’s quite a lot going on at CC: a new colleague in species management, a partnership to protect the Alpine salamander, expanding programmes and the first ‘CC branch’ in Italy
News from the Citizen Conservation Blog
VdZ Conference in Basel – Zoos for Species Conservation
From 3 to 6 June 2026, over 200 experts from the zoological sector gathered for the annual conference of CC member VdZ (Association of Zoological Gardens). A landmark event – and an impressive…
EAZA Conservation Forum in Kronberg
The EAZA Conservation Forum in Kronberg brings zoos and conservation organizations together to jointly develop solutions to combat species extinction.
Animal population overview 1/2026 – Encouraging growth, first breakthroughs and new species
22 May: International Day for Biological Diversity – and the half-yearly CC stock overview. With good news: we’ve made several leaps forward.
One plan, one goal, three partners: Cooperation between CC and Me Linh Center for Biodiversity in Vietnam
In view of the biodiversity crisis, all stakeholders in species conservation must work together. Citizen Conservation is implementing this in an exemplary manner with a newly agreed and closely…
The Big Frog Migration
First smuggled, then confiscated, now bred. Two endangered frog species have made their way from Zurich Zoo to the Karlsruhe Zoological Garden and the terrariums of private keepers from Citizen…
Even toads are political – CC Advisory Board meeting in Berlin
Proper studbooks in an increasingly messier world: the annual meeting of the CC Advisory Board and Supervisory Board focused on our conservation breeding programmes and international species…
