We bring animals into the classroom for school visits. It can be just a general talk about animals and conservation, with a chance to touch, or themed to match up with course work.

We can provide animal encounters for 'summer school' holiday clubs, libraries, summer camps and jamborees.

We can also bring animals into nurseries for the under fives, if you can provide enough helpers to supervise the children, also cub / brownie meetings, youth clubs, etc.- Brownies love a real Owl !

In most modern hospitals, infection control departments are quite happy to sanction animal visits to sick children. Most consider that the therapeutic benefits completely outweigh the minute risk of introducing infection.

For adults, we give talks to all kind of groups, such as W.I., Rotary, Lions, Camera clubs etc. It is not just children that like to get up-close to animals, and learn more about them.

We also give animal handling experience to people who will come into close contact with the more unusual animals by way of their work

My life long interest in animals started as a child, when I first touched and held them. I am sure the same is true for many others, now well known for their books and television programmes. In order to feel deeply and care about an animal and its welfare you need to have some sort of close experience together. Many years of watching both children and adults, getting up close to, and touching animals, leads me to believe that this is the best way of getting them interested in both conservation and animal welfare issues.

Unless our children take more care of the remaining wild animals in this world than we have done, their children will have little to see or touch.