Wildlife Connections Festival

We try to attend Chester Zoo’s Wildlife Connections Festival every year. This wonderful biodiversity event attempts to highlight the importance of the conservation of native species. There are always various tents where local conservation groups showcase their work to visitors.

Chester Zoo also has lots of stations where children get to do hands-on activities to understand a certain topic. The kids’ firm favorite is the ‘pollinator station’. Here they can learn the difference between pollinator-friendly and ‘unfriendly’ flowers by trying to retrieve sweets (pollen) from different wooden flower models. One of the zoo’s very knowledgeable gardeners then answers any questions the children may have.

Other stations include a bat box and a birdfeeder station. At the first one, the children were able to make a little seed bomb that would grow night flowering plants, at the latter they made bird food.

At home, after the event, we planted the seeds and put out the bird food for the little birds in our garden.