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Wild Planet Trust - Living Coasts

Wild Planet Trust - Living Coasts Torquay Harborside Beacon Quay Torquay Devon TQ1 2BG


Take a journey around the coasts of the world where amazing plants and animals live life on the edge.  At Living Coasts you'll see a huge array of coastal animals from penguins and seals to puffins, stingrays and octopus, each in their own specially-designed naturalistic habitats. With outdoor and indoor exhibits, there's plenty to see and do whatever the weather. Walk with penguins, listen to the waders and then enjoy the panoramic views…

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Permanent closure during coronavirus 15th Jun 2020 BIAZA’s thoughts are with everyone at Living Coasts and the Wild Planet Trust at this challenging time.
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Keepers teach chick to speak penguin 5th Feb 2020 A penguin chick at Living Coasts is learning its own language by listening to recordings of adult birds.
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New partnership to help Bay’s underwater rainforest 3rd Feb 2020 Living Coasts is linking up with Valeport, the Totnes-based underwater measuring instrumentation specialists to Save Our Seagrass.
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World Seagrass Day 1st Mar 2019 Living Coasts is marking a day dedicated to a vital wildlife habitat that few people have ever seen.
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Tropical sunsets 1st Feb 2019 A state-of-the-art lighting system has been installed at Living Coasts – for the fish.
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This fish rocks 28th Nov 2018 Four-eyed fish at Living Coasts have been observed performing a behaviour that zookeepers think has never before been recorded.
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The best sandpit in the world? 29th Aug 2018 Living Coasts are using mesmerising state-of-the-art technology to bring sand to life.
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Giving the shirts off their backs 15th Aug 2018 Three zoos in the South West are recycling old uniforms to help hard-pressed conservationists across Africa.
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Beautiful baby bird success for Living Coasts 13th Aug 2018 Living Coasts has hatched a black-legged kittiwake for the first time.
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Native seahorses return to Living Coasts 31st Jul 2018 Hidden away in the seagrass meadows of the bay seahorses live largely unnoticed but now you will be able to see them at Torquay’s coastal zoo.