December 2025

The Making of a Milestone: Behind the Update of WAZA’s Animal Welfare Strategy 2025 By David Powell, Director of Research at Saint Louis Zoo The Challenge of Updating a Global Strategy  Comprehensive, global guidance documents are visionary, widely applicable, and frequently referenced if they are done well. At the same time, they are a lot of work […]

CITES CoP20 Outcomes: Strengthening Wildlife Trade Policies for a Sustainable Future By Loïs Lelanchon, Head of Partnerships and Advocacy, WAZA From 24 November to 5 December 2025, WAZA – alongside several of our Association and Institution members – took part in the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP20) in Samarkand,

Furthering WAZA in Sustainability: Biodiversity Impact and Buying Power Author: Catherine Barton, Policy Lead Deforestation-Free Commodities and Regenerative Agriculture at Chester Zoo The story behind palm oil and zoos “What on earth is a zoo doing at a palm oil conference? Don’t you just feed animals?” These were the words I heard from a delegate