North-West Rare Plant Initiative

ALT Chester Zoo's deputy curator of lower verts and inverts poses infront of the false gharial habitat. He is holding a BIAZA silver award for his work to deliver training in the handling of confiscated crocodilians at a conservation breeding centre in Indonesia.

ALT UK Field Programme Coordinator Helen Bradshaw poses with Joshua Styles of the North West Rare Plant Initiative.

ALT An aquatic keeper poses with a Chester Zoo vet infront of the Chester Zoo aquarium. Their joint efforts have led to huge breeding success amongst the zoos omani-blind cavefish population.

ALT A lesser bladderwort flower pokes above the waterline, this aquatic plant still needs airborne species to spread it's pollen.

ALT Joshu Styles has done an incredible amount for plant conservation across the north west, here he poses at the site of the reintroduction

ALT CZ staff work with the lancashire wildlife trust team on rearing large heath butterflies for reintroduction on the Manchester Mosslands

ALT Chester Zoo works with plant conservationist Joshua styles on protecting plants in the north west of England

ALT At our Nature Reserve, works continues to build a haven for British wildlife on the Chester Zoo site.