Visitors to Newquay Zoo are being invited to help create eggs-traordinary artwork this Easter designed to celebrate our planet and show their commitment to protecting it. 

The artwork will include pledges, made by visitors, to make small lifestyle changes that together will make a big difference for the planet. 

The pledges will be created using a variety of different methods including printmaking and collage, and combined to create a giant display showcasing hope and positivity for the future. 

These creative workshops will run each weekday from 11am to 3pm during the Easter holidays, until Friday, April 14. In addition to making pledges, visitors will be able to create badges to take away and keep. 

The workshops will be run by artist and illustrator Freya Moses. 

She specialises in designing and delivering workshops with a focus on illustration and printmaking. 

Events manager Katie White said: “Conservation is very important to us at Newquay Zoo and we believe that every action matters. This activity will provide our visitors with a great opportunity to have fun, as well as inspiring and empowering them to help protect our planet too.” 

Visitors to the zoo will also be able to see a baby white-throated capuchin monkey that was born around a month ago.

Newquay Zoo is home to a family of capuchins: mum Irazu, dad Zaito and their offspring Baru and Diego, who were born in 2019 and 2021 respectively. 

The newest addition is a great success for the species, who are classed as vulnerable in the wild due to hunting and habitat loss.

Native to Central and South America, white-throated capuchins are among the most intelligent of the New World monkeys with a known ability to fashion tools. 

They are opportunistic feeders, feasting on fruits and nuts as well as small invertebrates and squirrels, rats, lizards and birds.

Staff at the zoo were delighted by their new arrival. 

Keeper team leader Dave Rich said: “Coming into work to a new-born capuchin was certainly an exciting time for all of us.

“Irazu is an experienced mum, and she and baby are doing well already. 

“The baby will spend all of its time on mum for the next few months, and then once it starts exploring on its own we’ll be able to find out its sex and name it.”

The baby capuchin is not the only new arrival, as the zoo has recently become home to two West African crowned cranes, along with a critically-endangered big-headed turtle.