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We hope that you have fun exploring our site, but remember, unlike some of our competitors, this site is run by working cryptozoologists, not hobbyists. The research into cryptozoology across the globe, and our rapidly expanding programme of community work comes first. We are on a deadly serious mission - do you want to join us?
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 - we believe - the largest 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 our work. 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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our site and find out how you can join the world's biggest, fastest growing
and best mystery animal research group
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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 or cryptozoological research facility.
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LAST UPDATED: 5th February
SLIDESHOW: Building a conservation lake (Story: 2nd February)
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5th February: WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Red kites, Glossy Ibis and Thrushes (two different ones)
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5th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Nigel Wright remembers the day he joined the CFZ
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5th February: CFZ PEOPLE: A portrait of Jon is part of an ongoing art project (don't laugh)
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5th February: NATURAL HISTORY: My dear nephew Dave B-P found this giant eel cutting in the North Devon Journal
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5th February: FORTEAN: Those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies are making their archive available to all and sundry. Today The Daily Express 28.4.1959
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5th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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4th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Iceland river monster? Click here for further details... 4th February: DALE DRINNON: Bigfoot / Mining Hastened Erosion / Cedar and Willow Click here for further details... 4th February: CFZ PRESS: update on the 2012 CFZ Yearbook Click here for further details... 4th February: POULTRY NEWS: 1,800-year-old cockerel 'a message to the gods'? Click here for further details... 4th February: CONSERVATION: Perils of illegal imports of African 'bush meat' Click here for further details... 4th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Andrew May with Words from the Wild Frontier Click here for further details... 4th February: MYSTERY ANIMAL? - Lars Thomas asks for help in identifying a drawing Click here for further details... 4th February: FORTEAN - a 1959 Daily Telegraph cutting from the Haunted Skies archive Click here for further details... 4th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today Click here for further details... 3rd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on the saga of the alleged Pygmy Elephants in the Danish Museum Click here for further details... 3rd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More pygmy elephant stuff Click here for further details... 3rd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker finds a reference to a hitherto unsuspected species of giant gecko in the most unexpected place Click here for further details... 3rd February: CFZ PEOPLE: Dale Drinnon on the jade trade, and an update from 'Cedar & Willow' Click here for further details... 3rd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (BIG CATS): More on the saga of the Gloucestershire big cat Click here for further details... 3rd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY (BIG CATS): The Palace Puma Click here for further details... 3rd February: NATURAL HISTORY: The RSPB announces the search to find 2012’s most wildlife friendly farmer Click here for further details... 3rd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The discussion on the recent image from Loch Lomond continues Click here for further details... 3rd February: FORTEAN: Those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies are making their archive available to all and sundry. Today The Daily Express 6.3.1959 Click here for further details... 3rd February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today Click here for further details... 2nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Pygmy elephant update
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2nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Big cats in Gloucestershire, including THOSE DNA test results
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2nd February: NATURAL HISTORY/JON'S JOURNAL: Frost, footprints and a lagomorph mêlée
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2nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY: Two new blog posts from Dale Drinnon - one on neanderthals, and the other on the earliest civilisation in Europe
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2nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nigel Wright reports on big cats in the Lake District
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2nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: Chris Clark is in Tahiti, and look what he found on the beach
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2nd February: APPEAL: Hard drives for Tibet
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2nd February: FORTEAN: Those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies are making their archive available to all and sundry. Today The Daily Express 6.2.1959
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2nd February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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1st February: CFZtv: Episode 54 of 'On The Track' is now available, and it is a cracker!
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1st February: CFZ PRESS GROUP: Hit Parade for January
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1st February: TERATOLOGY: Karl Shuker seeks a scientific explanation for white tigers and lions
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1st February: CFZ PEOPLE: New blog postings from Dale Drinnon on cryptozoology, anthropology and 'Cedar and Willow'. How does this man keep up such a prodigous output?
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1st February: NATURAL HISTORY: Spiderwebs in Pakistani trees after 2010 floods
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1st February: WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Corinna looks at red kites in Ireland, attacks on buzzards, and a load of other avian stuff.
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1st February: FORTEAN: Those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies are making their archive available to all and sundry. Today The Daily Express 28.4.1959
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1st February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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A comprehensive Index - by both date and subject - of News Stories can be found HERE This is where old news stories are archived, so they no longer take up room on the front page.
CFZtv: Our YouTube Channel has over two hundred films, from short clips to feature-length movies. They are all for free and there are no adverts..
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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 13th Weird Weekend, will be held on the third weekend of August 2012. The whole event is being posted on CFZtv.
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