Sectors
Sub sector
Zookeeping
Audience
New entrant / guardian
Availability
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Association of British Wild Animal Keepers
Careers as zoo or wild animal keepers offer unique opportunities in the specialised and demanding profession of maintaining captive exotic animals for conservation, research, public education and recreation.
Zoo keepers care for a diverse collection of animals from mammals and birds to reptiles and amphibians to fish and invertebrates. Many keepers become highly specialised, concentrating on a specific group of animals such as exotic birds, great apes, elephants or reptiles. Some of these keepers develop reputations that are recognised internationally.