Sloth bear appeal

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Sloth bear looking at camera with a branch in the foreground IMAGE: Shutterstock 2025
Sloth bear looking at camera IMAGE: Shutterstock 2025

Exciting new home

Sloth bears are coming to Edinburgh Zoo!

As well as plenty of outdoor space to roam, a new play den is planned providing you with amazing views of the bears so you can enjoy these fascinating animals up close. 

A walkway to their new home is being designed making it easier to reach them and with places created where children of all ages can imagine what it’s like to be a bear!

How you can help

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Your £250 could help create a new play den for the bears to enjoy, and your name will be featured on an exclusive paw print as our thank you 

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Your £100 could help create a beautiful walkway where children’s imaginations can flourish, and your name will be added to a donor board as our thank you

Sloth bear IMAGE: Shutterstock 2025

Your £25 could help give them exciting areas to explore and plenty of outdoor space to roam

Your name at the bears new home

For donations of £100 and over, your chosen name will be displayed on a donor board at the sloth bears new home. 

If you make a donation of £250 and over, your name will be displayed on an exclusive paw print.

Sloth bear climbing a tree IMAGE: Shutterstock 2025

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What your gift can do:

Your £30 a month could provide enrichment activities so animals can engage in their natural behaviour

Your £16 a month could help keepers care for the animals you love

Your £12 a month could help feed an animal for a day

Your £250 could help create a new play den for the bears to enjoy, and your name will be featured on an exclusive paw print as our thank you

Your £100 could help create a beautiful walkway where children’s imaginations can flourish, and your name will be added to a donor board as our thank you

Your £25 could help give them exciting areas to explore and plenty of outdoor space to roam

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