Editing Chester Zoo (section)

==Species and animals==
[[File:Chester Zoo (41955050581).jpg|thumb|[[Visayan hornbill]] (Penelopides panini).]]
[[File:Chester Zoo, The Aquarium - geograph.org.uk - 208840.jpg|thumb|Aquariums at the zoo.]]
Chester Zoo holds a large and diverse collection. At the end of 2007, over half the species at the zoo appeared on the [[IUCN Red List]] and 155 were classified as [[threatened species]]. 134 species were kept as part of a managed captive breeding programme. The zoo manages the studbooks for [[African forest buffalo|Congo buffalo]], [[jaguar]], [[blue-eyed cockatoo]], [[Sanzinia madagascariensis|Madagascan tree boa]], [[gemsbok]] (all ESB species), [[eastern black rhinoceros]], [[Lilacine amazon|Ecuadorian amazon parrot]], [[Mindanao wrinkled hornbill|Mindanao writhe-billed hornbill]], [[Sumatran tiger]] and [[Rodrigues flying fox]] (all [[European Endangered Species Programme|EEP]] species). In addition, Chester holds 265 threatened plant species.
At the end of 2015, Chester Zoo became the first zoo outside of New Zealand to breed the [[tuatara]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Animal Inventory |publisher=Chester Zoo |url=https://www.chesterzoo.org/footer/corporate-information/animal-inventory |access-date=21 March 2025 }}</ref>

The number of species and individual animals held by Chester Zoo at the end of 2024, according their animal inventory,<ref>{{cite web|title=Chester Zoo Annual Review 2007&nbsp;– Appendices |publisher=Chester Zoo |url=http://www.chesterzoo.org/Home/About/Annual%20Reports/2007.aspx |access-date=18 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925022540/http://www.chesterzoo.org/Home/About/Annual%20Reports/2007.aspx |archive-date=25 September 2008 }}</ref> are as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Group
! Number of species
! Number of animals
|-
| Mammals
| 95
| 1416
|-
| Birds
| 144
| 1527
|-
| Reptiles
| 57
| 451
|-
| Amphibians
| 23
| 1107
|-
| Fish
| 102
| 12287
|-
| Invertebrates
| 98
| 12064
|- class="sortbottom"
| '''Total'''
| '''519'''
| '''28852'''
|}