Plan Your Visit to Edinburgh Zoo
We are open every day of the year, including Christmas Day, from 9am until:
| 6.00pm | April - Sept. |
| 5.00pm | Oct. & March |
| 4.30pm | Nov. - Feb. |
How you can help
The natural world needs our help...and we need yours! Please consider making a donation to support our conservation, education and research work, both within our parks and across the world.
What is the Exit Strategy?
An exit strategy is an integral part of the project plan, although the considered opinion is that the project will be successful and that there will be no call on an exit strategy. An exit strategy might be implemented during the trial if major, insurmountable problems occur. The reasons for considering implementation of an exit strategy are as follows:
- Unsustainable and detrimental effects arise as a result of the reintroduction of beavers to the study area. This applies equally to forestry, agriculture, fishery or conservation interests
- There is an insupportable level of mortality in released animals as a result of persecution, human intervention or natural mortality attributed to trial procedures
- The security of the site is compromised to the serious detriment of the animals
- There are four options for the methods of implementing an exit strategy:
- Transfer to other reintroduction programmes or ecological research sites.
- Housing of animals in zoological collections.
- Capturing, neutering and returning animals to live their life span in the wild.
- Humane destruction of animals.