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British Consulate-General in Shanghai

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a non-governmental organisation headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that aims to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions. Founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), the global conservation organisation manages four New York City wildlife parks in addition to the Bronx Zoo: the Central Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo and Queens Zoo

Paignton Zoo is a zoo in Paignton, Devon, England. The zoo was started as a private collection by avid animal collector and breeder, Herbert Whitley, in the grounds of his home Primley House. It was opened to the public on a number of occasions originally as Primley Zoological Gardens, and closed twice due to disputes with the tax authorities. The commercialisation of the zoo came when animals and attractions were relocated from Chessington Zoo during World War II, and the site was named as Devon's Zoo and Circus. On Whitley's death, the zoo was signed over to a trust, now called the Wild Planet Trust, to be run as a public attraction

Cleres Zoological Park is on the grounds of a 14th century château and includes 200 mammals and 1,500 birds in a wooded area of 13 hectares (32 acres)

The Orgeon Zoo, originally the Portland Zoo and later the Washington Park Zoo, is a zoo located in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest zoo west of the Mississippi River. It is owned by the regional Metro government. It all began with two bears purchased by Richard Knight - one brown bear and one grizzly. A former seaman turned pharmacist, Knight began collecting animals from his seafaring friends. He kept his collection in the back of his drug store on Third & Morrison streets. When caring for the animals became too large a responsibility he sought to sell them to the city of Portland. Instead of buying the animals, the city offered to give Knight two circus cages and allowed him to place the caged bears on the grounds of City Park (now called Washington Park)

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Reginald Elson Rewell was a consultant pathologist based in Liverpool. 'Rex', the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Thornton Heath in Surrey. He received his early schooling from his father and was then educated at Whitgift. He went on to London University and Guy's Hospital, graduating in 1941. After house jobs in Southampton, and under the influence and guidance of George Payling Wright, he became a trainee in pathology at Guy's Hospital. He obtained the MRCP in 1942 and his MD in 1943 with the aim of being graded a specialist in pathology when called up. However he was rejected for military service because of his poor eyesight and continued to work in the Guy's Hospital Sector, then based at Farnborough.

In 1945 he was appointed pathologist/parasitologist to the Zoological Society of London. Later he became an examiner in pathology for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and was elected a scientific fellow of the Zoological Society. Although he loved his work at London Zoo, and published some thirty papers, mostly on comparative anatomy and veterinary pathology, the post paid only a modest honorarium and he sought an appointment in the newly established National Health Service.

In 1950 he was appointed consultant pathologist to the United Liverpool Hospitals and given charge of the laboratories at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, the Women's Hospital and Liverpool Children's Hospital. He was also a lecturer in clinical pathology at the University of Liverpool.

In 1956 he was made a visiting professor of pathology at the National Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Madras under the Colombo plan.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation. It was founded in 1889. It works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom.

The origins of the RSPB lie with two groups of women, both formed in 1889. The Plumage League was founded by Emily Williamson at her house in Didsbury, Manchester, as a protest group campaigning against the use of great crested grebe and kittiwake skins and feathers in fur clothing. The Fin, Fur and Feather Folk was founded in Croydon by Eliza Phillips, Etta Lemon, Catherine Hall, Hannah Poland and others. The groups gained in popularity and amalgamated in 1891 to form the Society for the Protection of Birds in London. The Society gained its Royal Charter in 1904. The original members of the SPB were all women who campaigned against the fashion of the time for women to wear exotic feathers in hats, and the consequent encouragement of 'plume hunting'