The London-based social enterprise is turning regular people into at-home zookeepers.
Now, London-based Citizen Zoo is trying to bring them back—and it’s planning to do it by turning regular people into zookeepers. Reintroducing the grasshoppers to restored wetland sites across their historic range can bring huge benefits to ecosystems and food chains, says Citizen Zoo’s 30-year-old CEO Lucas Ruzo. “We came up with this citizen keeper concept, which is basically normal people being zookeepers in their own homes, breeding and rearing grasshoppers,” he says.
” Ruzo hopes they will soon be reintroduced to Hackney Wick marshes, his local go-to spot for natural connections. Citizen Zoo launched in 2016 as a standard-bearer for rewilding after Ruzo had seen conventional wildlife charities’ lukewarm embrace of the idea while studying for a masters in conservation science at Imperial College London, following a degree in zoology. Ruzo, who idolized Steve Irwin as a kid, was born in Denmark but spent his childhood moving around Europe.
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