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12/09/2026

Every year, incredible conservation research is published and most of it never reaches the people who need it most: teachers, students, and local communities.
That gap is exactly what conservation education exists to close.
We are hosting a 4 Day Hands On Workshop on Conservation Education Training, designed to help you turn research and knowledge into engaging, action oriented programmes that actually connect with people.
📍 What you'll build:
✓ Effective Teaching Strategies
✓ Communication & Engagement
✓ Experiential Learning
✓ Conservation Education
October 1 to 4, 2026
Zoo Outreach Organisation Field Office, Coimbatore
Registration Fee: INR 5000 (Includes lunch. Excludes accommodation, breakfast and dinner).
Only 10 seats available
If you're an educator, naturalist, student, or conservation professional who wants to make science and nature stick this workshop is for you.
Applications are now open!

🔗 Link in bio: apply at the earliest, seats are limited!

31/08/2026

🌿 A New Chapter in Conservation Begins! 🌏

The wait is over—our CPC 2026–27 Fellows have arrived! 🎉

From new faces and new friendships to field experiences, conservation science, and countless stories waiting to unfold—a new cohort is ready to learn, explore, and grow for conservation. 🐾🌱

The journey officially begins with the inauguration of the Conservation Proficiency Course (CPC)! ✨

10 months of learning, fieldwork, challenges, collaboration, and turning passion for nature into meaningful conservation action.

Welcome to CPC 2026–27, Fellows! 💚

19/08/2026

💥We’re excited to announce our upcoming Hands-on Training (HOTs) Workshops — designed to help you learn by doing, explore practical conservation approaches, and build skills that can be applied in real-world conservation settings.

What to expect?
🌱 Practical, hands-on learning
🔎 Field-based experiences
🧠 Expert guidance
🤝 Interactive sessions
🌏 Real-world conservation approaches

Whether you're a student, educator, researcher, conservation professional, or simply passionate about nature - there’s something to explore, learn and take back with you.

📢 Stay tuned for workshop dates, themes and registration details!

Open HOTs registration - Link in bio💚

Don’t just learn about conservation.
Experience it. Practice it. Be part of it. 🌿

14/07/2026

💚DailyLife Wildlife💚

Sometimes the most amazing wildlife moments don’t happen in forests🌳 … they happen right outside our home. From tiny insects🐞 to curious birds🦉 and lizards🦎 sunbathing on walls. Every day, we walk past incredible species living quietly beside us. Their stories, adaptations, and behaviour are happening in real time, often unnoticed.

Let’s slow down and celebrate the wildlife sharing our everyday spaces.💥

What wildlife did YOU see today?👀

23/06/2026

At fishing harbors, we frequently encounter billfishes with worm-like animals dangling on their bodies. These wormy looking creatures are copepods, which are actually small crustaceans (like crabs and shrimps)!
Here, we have Swordfishes (Xiphias gladius) (pic 1) with Pennella cf. instructa, a copepod, digging into their flanks (pic 2).
From the larval to adult stage, Pennella sp. develops on gills of cephalapods (squids, cuttlefishes). After mating, the inseminated females move on to their next hosts, fishes & mammals, where the females anchor into the host's muscles, tissues to feed on blood and produce eggs (Mugetti et al. 2021). One can see a female Pennella sp. carrying a linear egg string (circled part, pic 3). The eggs are released into the waters which go on to attach to a passing cephalapod, repeating the life cycle~

Pennella instructa drawing source in pic 3: Wunderlich et al. 2014
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13/06/2026

‘Bugs R All’ is a section of Zoo’s Print, an open-access archive of scientific communications published by Zooreach on the 21st of every month since 1985*. It also serves as the newsletter of Invertebrate Conservation Information Network of South Asia (ICINSA) and the IUCN SSC South Asian Invertebrate Specialist Group (SAsISG) and is edited by Dr Sanjay Molur, chair of the two networks.

For 30 years, it has featured popular and scientific writing, artwork, natural history notes, observations, outreach, and conservation activities on diverse invertebrate groups across South Asia.

You are welcome to submit your article for 'Bugs r all' at [email protected]. Please visit the website www.zoosprint.zooreach.org for information on article submission guidelines.

1 & 3 - new logo for 'Bugs r all' :D
Logo design by Usha Ravindra Madgunaki

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10/06/2026

🐹Nature's Tiny Hunter.

The Siberian Weasel is a skilled predator that balances mountain ecosystems. It is one of the tiniest resident of the Himalayas playing an ecological role beyond its size.

This post is inspired by a real field observation from Chamba, where a Siberian Weasel unexpectedly became the centre of an intriguing encounter in our native sapling nursery. Stories like these remind us that even the smallest creatures have an important place in nature.🌳

📖 Want to learn more about this fascinating mammal and its story from the Himalayas? Read the full article through the link:
https://share.google/L07DsGXtJw5nyy5AI

08/06/2026

Did you know that every time you stand at the shoreline, you’re looking at one of the oldest repeating scenes on Earth? The intertidal zone you see today, where waves rise and fall and life clinging between tides, has existed for at least 500 million years! When you’re watching crabs scuttle, shells glint in the sand, or algae sway in the tide, you’re witnessing a living system that was already being shaped in the Cambrian Period!

This gem of a fact is from Rachel Carson's book, Edge of the Sea, where she writes, "...the basic plan of each of the large groups of animals and plants that now inhabit the shore had been at least projected in those Cambrian seas, and we may suppose, on good evidence, that the strip between the tide lines 500 million years ago bore at least a general resemblance to the intertidal area of the present stage of earth history."

Next time you go to sea, you’re not just enjoying its vastness, but also glimpsing 500 million years into the past! 🌊

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07/06/2026

The future of conservation is shaped by people who are willing to learn, explore, and take action.

With just 3 days left to apply, the Conservation Proficiency Course (CPC) 2026 offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on conservation experience, learn from leading experts, and build a meaningful career in wildlife and environmental conservation.

✨ What awaits you?
🔹 Conservation theory and action gen
🔹Hands-on training
🔹 Paid internship
🔹 Fellowships
🔹 Guidance from 75+ mentors
🔹 A pathway to becoming a conservation leader

From forests and wetlands to mountains and oceans, every ecosystem needs passionate individuals ready to make a difference.

📅 Application Deadline: June 10, 2026
📍 Apply now and become part of a growing community working for nature and people.

🌱 Learn. Explore. Conserve.
📲 Scan the QR code and take the first step toward a career with impact.

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3A2 Varadharajulu Nagar, FCI Road, Ganapathy
Coimbatore
641006

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 6pm

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https://www.zooreach.org/

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