Our Conseravtion Charity Partners

Every year we support, sponsor and fundraise for a number of conservation charites

Selamatkan Yaki

Drusillas has partnered with Indonesian conservation, research and education programme: Selamatkan Yaki to help endangered and protected species in North Sulawesi. Populations of Sulawesi crested macaques in the wild have declined by 80% over the last 40 years. Learn more about the Critically Endangered Sulawesi crested macaque. To help protect these primates from extinction, Drusillas Conservation in Action charity has donated vital funds to Selamatkan Yaki to finance a full-time 'monkey guard' to protect macaques in their native habitat. Ramenpudi Seba, known as Ara, manages human-wildlife interactions between macaques and the local community in Batuputih.

Donate to Selamatkan Yaki

The Sloth Conservation Foundation

The Sloth Conservation Foundation (SloCo) - a registered non-profit organisation that aims to protect sloths in the wild through research and conservation initiatives. To date we have raised almost £20,000 for SloCo and in 2023 travelled to Costa Rica to aid their field conservation including building sloth bridges, platning sloth-friendly trees, and assistance in collaring sloths for census data.

Donate to SloCo

Saving Sloths in Costa Rica

Nature's SAFE

The conservation charity Nature’s SAFE, one of the world’s first living biobanks, is on a mission to Save Animals From Extinction. As animal populations decline, a point is reached when the genetic diversity essential for species survival is lost. As EAZA Biobank’s UK-based cryopreservation partner, Nature’s SAFE works with zoos and wildlife rescue centres to secure the future of animal biodiversity. They do this by storing cells and tissues from threatened wildlife species using advanced cryopreservation technologies. The partnership between Nature’s SAFE and Drusilla’s Zoo embodies our shared commitment to conservation, and most recently we donated cells and tissue from our male Cambodian binturong Penh so that his legacy can live on.

Donate to Nature's SAFE

South Downs National Park

Located within the South Downs National Park, Drusillas Zoo Park is committed to managing our 15-acre site as a quality habitat for native species, not only contributing to our biodiversity conservation goals but underpinning the protection of the unique habitats in the South Downs National Park. Our contribution to the park now extends to funding the activities of the Rangers conserving the unique chalk grasslands, meadows and wetlands of the Seven Sisters Country Park. Through our support we hope to see iconic species such as the Red-Listed ringed plover and the Adonis blue butterfly which is classified as Vulnerable on the GB Red List of butterflies, thrive in their habitats.

Donate to South Downs Trust

Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund

The Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund raises money for research being carried out in Brazil for these endangered primates. The research is fundamental in conserving these beautifully bright tamarins and we are proud to have raised over £16,000 so far. These funds go towards securing and protecting areas of forest and sponsoring local conservationists in Brazil.

Donate to GLTs

The Civet Project Foundation

Drusillas Zoo Park and The Civet Project are joining forces to help civets and binturong! We are collaborating on the Reverse the Red species pledge for the binturong, a species that is Vulnerable to extinction. We also fund The Civet Project’s conservation engagement events in Vietnam, allowing their team to promote civet conservation with local stakeholders.

Donate to The Civet Project Foundation

Colobus Conservation

Colobus Conservation is a not-for-profit conservation organisation designed to promote the conservation, preservation, and protection of primates like the vulnerable Angolan Colobus monkey and its coastal forest habitat in south eastern Kenya. In 2024 we built a conservation-focused habitat for our troop of black and white colobus to promote our new partnership with Colobus Conservation and raise money for the vital work they carry out in Kenya.

Donate to Colobus Conservation

Drusillas in Africa Project

Since 1996, we have raised over £84,000 to help support wildlife and education programmes in Kenya. Re-launched in 2010, the Drusillas in Africa project - in collaboration with Marwell Wildlife - provides grants for young Maasai students to obtain a formal qualification in Nature Conservation, which can be used to support them in research work into endangered species such as the Grevy’s zebra. We are currently funding Sakimba Lesoloiya’s Master of Science in Environmental Governance. Sakimba’s research thesis is "Assessment of the Effectiveness of Community-Based Conservation Incentives in Protecting the Grevy's Zebra in Kisima Area, Samburu County.

Falkland Island Penguin Appeal

Drusillas supports the Falkland Island Penguin Appeal. This appeal supports fieldwork that monitors penguin species on the island and to date, we’ve raised over £13,000. The fieldwork involves analysing numbers and breeding success. Habitat destruction is of great concern and the charity works with Governments to secure safe nesting areas for the birds.

Donate to penguins

Raffle Prizes

At Drusillas, we receive a huge number of free ticket requests from so many wonderful charities and causes. We would love to be able to help everyone, but to allocate our resources fairly we have created some criteria as follows:

We can only send free tickets to registered charities, schools, and uniformed groups for their fundraisers, bona fide fetes and Christmas fayres, provided they are within East or West Sussex, Kent or Surrey.
Requests must be on official headed paper with details of the relevant event and with an A5 stamped addressed envelope with the official address enclosed. Please note that we cannot reply to a personal address at all.
We provide two free child (under 16) tickets to Drusillas which are eligible to be used at any time of the year* but they require each free ticket person to be accompanied by another person paying the full entrance price. * the only days these tickets cannot be used are our costume character days. Please check our website for dates.

If your event fits these criteria, please send your request and a stamped addressed envelope to: