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15-05-2006, 12:41 AM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: London
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Hello everyone. I have just joined the site and I am looking forward to spending some time on here.
I work at London Zoo, and Wildlife conservation is important to me. Especially local wildlife. |
15-05-2006, 05:03 AM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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Good morning Adam and welocome to WAB. London Zoo, Wow! Any particular species?
Very glad to have you here, loads more will welcome you when they get up. I'm always up with the lark. Looking forward to your posts. ww |
15-05-2006, 06:30 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Hampshire, England
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Hello Adam and welcome!
It must be very rewarding being able to work so close to the animals.
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15-05-2006, 06:40 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: East Sussex
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Hi Adam,
Welcome aboard. WAB is a great place to be! |
15-05-2006, 07:14 AM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
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Hi and a very warm welcome to WAB 
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15-05-2006, 07:53 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2004
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I shall be interested to hear how conservation of world species perhaps has relevance to British wildlife - I'm sure there'll be a connection.
Welcome to WAB Adam.
Tink |
15-05-2006, 08:22 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Lincolnshire
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Hello Adam and a very warm welcome to WAB from me. Your job sounds very interesting and it's great to hear that wildlife conservation is important to you. You will soon feel at home here we are a very friendly bunch.
Ollie |
15-05-2006, 08:46 AM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.E. Lincolnshire
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Hello Adam, and welcome to the site
It can be a bit of a zoo on here sometimes, so you should feel at home  |
15-05-2006, 08:55 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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Originally Posted by Tinkerbell I shall be interested to hear how conservation of world species perhaps has relevance to British wildlife - I'm sure there'll be a connection.
Welcome to WAB Adam.
Tink | I was briefly involved in schemes run by London zoo that involve conservation and captive breeding - reintroduction of rare British crickets, the wart-biter and the field cricket mainly as I remember but I think they were trying with the Mole cricket too. So obviously that was clearly of relevance.
Yes welcome to the forum! |
15-05-2006, 09:05 AM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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As a very late riser, Welcome from me to! |
15-05-2006, 09:11 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Woking, Surrey
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Welcome to WAB - Hope you find it as useful and friendly as I have.
Olly |
15-05-2006, 12:59 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: London
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Thankyou for such a warm welcome.
Unfortunately I only work as a porter at London Zoo at the moment, but I am using this as a stepping stone to move onto a more animal related role (hopefully).
London Zoo is part of ZSL, an international charity which also owns Whipsnade Wild Animal Park.
ZSL do actually do some important conservation work involving UK species which some of you have already mentioned such as the British field cricket. Current UK conservation work I believe includes Corncrakes, UK Crayfish and rare bat species.
Again thankyou for such a warm welcome. I am particuarly interested in native UK mammals, so will probably be spending a lot of time on the mammals forum.
Adam. |
15-05-2006, 01:30 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
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Hi Adam and a very warm welcome to WAB
Enjoy
John |
15-05-2006, 02:04 PM
| | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
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Originally Posted by Adam Thankyou for such a warm welcome.
Unfortunately I only work as a porter at London Zoo at the moment, but I am using this as a stepping stone to move onto a more animal related role (hopefully).
Adam. | I personally think you are very fortunate even as a porter you must see quite a bit of the animals but what a plus for you when you get the chance to work with them.Good luck in your ambition
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15-05-2006, 03:04 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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Originally Posted by cherrybee I personally think you are very fortunate even as a porter you must see quite a bit of the animals but what a plus for you when you get the chance to work with them.Good luck in your ambition |
Yes absolutely, I did a bird survey at dawn at Dudley zoo when there was only me, the keepers and the porters there and I got to stroke baby reindeernoses and everything it was lovely.
My advice as to getting involved with the research and conservation is start small (go for invertebrates because there are fewer people wanting to work with them) and offer to help or ask to shadow when they are counting adults in the outdoor pens etc.... |
15-05-2006, 08:38 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
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Hello Adam .... a very warm welcome to WAB from me too.
Richard |
15-05-2006, 08:47 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Horsham W Sussex
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Yawn..............Cor just got up................Hello Adam and welcome here.............Jon |
15-05-2006, 09:22 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: London
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Thanks for all your advice.
I am going to start volunteering at a Wildlife Aid centre in Surrey in 2 weeks to gain some experience working directly with animals. This should help, and also be very interesting.
Does anyone else here work with animals or volunteer for animal related causes?
Adam |
15-05-2006, 11:55 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Exmouth Devon
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Originally Posted by Adam Hello everyone. I have just joined the site and I am looking forward to spending some time on here.
I work at London Zoo, and Wildlife conservation is important to me. Especially local wildlife. | Hi welcome to the WAB I come from Hampstead Just up the road from the London Zoo.
You will like this site
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16-05-2006, 07:18 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Essex
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Hiya Adam, I have a mate who used to work at London zoo, its a great place A very warm welcome to the site, im sure you will enjoy... | |
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