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We are active in conservation, cryptozoology education and community work with both adults and children, but in the last few years things have changed. Increasingly idiotic legislation from successive governments has produced an education system aimed at teaching children to pass exams, and very little else. Add to this the social changes which have made it almost impossible for children (and adults) to study Natural History as a hobby, and you have a situation which we believe is a tragedy.
Because without amateur naturalists there would have been no Darwin, no Linneaus, no Gerald Durrell, no David Attenborough, and no Centre for Fortean Zoology. And without the amateur naturalists of the 21st Century, from whence will the next generation of zoological savants and freethinkers emerge?
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At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology
[CFZ] is the only professional, scientific and full-time organisation
in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992 the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and investigation all over the world.
We are a non-profit making organisation, and none of the directors are paid anything for their time and effort. Any monies earned or donated go straight into research. We are also active in disability rights; several of the directorate, including the director, are disabled, and we hope that our activities give a positive view of what disabled people can achieve.
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We have a nascent museum and library, as well as facilities for film making, publishing, and research. Over the next few years we have plans to continue our programme of renovations to make this the world's foremost fortean zoological research facility.
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"Throughout human history gladiators have fought in various arenas for the enjoyment of others. Yet even the greatest of human champions would last mere seconds against some of nature's nightmares. Few people would fail to recognise the killing capability of a great white shark. However, is it without peer? Does it have anything to fear from any of the ocean's other predators? Similarly, few people would doubt the killing capability of the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex, but could it eat any dinosaur it came across? If it had lived in another place and at another time, would T. Rex have ended up being lunch for something else? Predator Deathmatch is the first book ever to study apex predators and actually pose the question of who is/was the ultimate predator by pitting them against each other".
We are the world's leading publishers of cryptozoological, and cryptozoology related books with over fifty titles currently in print. Our latest book is Predator Deathmatch by Nick Molloy.
LAST UPDATED: 8th February
MARJORIE BRAUND (1930-2009)
Every story has a beginning
From our birth star to the very end
And the wheel keeps on spinning
The tattered cloth of love you wear
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8th February:FORTEAN: Mike Hallowell with a story of Geordie weirdness featuring an entombed linnet's nest
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8th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Kithra critiques new bigfoot video
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8th February:FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: An interesting and completely inaccurate article abour mysterious tree frogs
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8th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at the Florida river monster
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8th February:CFZ PRESS: Exclusaive money-off offer on forthcoming CFZ Press book
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8th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th February:CFZ: So what's been going on here?
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7th February:FORTEAN: An Owlman cartoon
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7th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with modern sightings of dragons
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7th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: What are these? We have a shrewd idea
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7th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Octrober may be nine months away, but it is when the next AES show will be
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7th February:NATURAL HISTORY: What a brilliant thing to do! There's a bloke here who has a worldwide butterfly identification service
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7th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th February:RESEARCH: Muirhead's Mysteries takes a look at some more obscure journals
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6th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A different aspect to the Loch Ness Monster
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6th February:NATURAL HISTORY: A peculiar case of Butterfly Fraud
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6th February:NATURAL HISTORY: A Mystery Insect in Thailand
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6th February:CONSERVATION: The latest newsletter from the Center for Biological Diversity
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6th February:FORTEAN: Jon in the Bideford Post
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6th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis presents Yesterday's News Today
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5th February:CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part 23 of the BHM archives
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5th February:CFZ PEOPLE: Meet the new poster girl for the CFZ
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5th February:FORTEAN: Richard Freeman looks at the monster cartoons of Hanna Barbera
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5th February:CONSERVATION: Center for Biological Diversity Newsletter
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5th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: London Crypto Event
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5th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot in Guatamala
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5th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren's blog on Champ is scrutinised by Dale
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A comprehensive Index - by both date and subject - of News Stories can be found HERE This is where old news storiesare archived, so they no longer take up room on the front page.
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The Weird Weekend is the biggest predominantly cryptozoological conference in the English Speaking World, and has been presented every year since 2000. The eleventh Weird Weekend, which will - as always - be held on the third weekend of August. (13-15) has already confirmed the following speakers:
LARS THOMAS: Identifying hair samples
CARL PORTMAN: On the trail of the Australian whistling spider
RONAN COGHLAN: The Holy Grail
GLEN VAUDREY: The waterhorse
SAM SHEARON aka "Mr Sam": Redwoods Bigfoot
MATTHEW WILLIAMS: Crop Circles
ANDY ROBERTS: The Berwyn Mountain UFO crash
LINDSAY SELBY: Loch Ness adventures
NEIL ARNOLD: The mysteries of Bluebell Hill
RICHARD FREEMAN et al: Sumatra 2009 Expedition Report
JON AND CORINNA DOWNES, AND MAX BLAKE: What happened in Killarney
MAX BLAKE: The new animals of the past year
And already we have a fantastic line-up. And Davey and Joanne are back running the kid's area, and Nick and Kara Wadham from Yeovil Bugfest will be doing the kid's animal handling. Eight months to go, and it is looking to be a smashing lineup.
Issue 47 of our journal is now available.
3. Editorial
5. Faculty of the CFZ
8. Contents
9. Newsfile
21. Obituaries:
Robert Rines, Stuart Rickard
23. Aquatic monsters logbook
by Oll Lewis
30. Letter from America
By Nick Redfern
34. Mystery cats diary
35. CFZ Australia: Australian big cats
By Ruby Lang
42. Watcher of the skies
By Corinna Downes
47. 2009 Expedition report:
Five go mad in Sumatra
By Richard Freeman
57. 2010 yearbook
58. Mystery animals of Flemish
folklore part 2 by Neil Arnold
61. Cryptoclearance
62. Never the mind the Aurochs
By Max Blake
67. Gerald Durrells’ strange
Corfu cattle
By Jon Downes
70. Weird Weekend 2009
72. Letters to the Editor
75. Book Reviews
78. The Sycophant
79. Marjorie Braund is dead
80. About the CFZ
84. CFZ Press