Meet The 'Poo Zoo' Team Battling Animal Extinction One Dung At A Time

A lion at Chester Zoo

Last year, Professor Suzannah Williams began a project with a noble aim and a hilarious title: the Poo Zoo. 

The scheme, created with funding from conservation non-profit Revive and Restore, has partnered with Chester Zoo to optimise the care and protection we can offer the million-plus species at risk of extinction.

More specifically, the experts want to help at-risk animals by using their dung. 

Dr Rhiannon Bolton, who’s researching the droppings of animals in the care of Chester Zoo...