A recent Cornwall Sustainable Tourism award and BIAZA award for sustainability projects recognised an interactive map of Newquay promoting self-guided walking tours around the town and Newquay area, featuring its history, heritage, wildlife and public transport links.

The animal collection at Newquay consists of many species, including ex-situ conservation breeding programmes for endangered red pandas, lemurs, Humboldt penguins, marmosets, tamarins and tapirs.

The World Land Trust BIAZA zoo reserve in South America is also supported through the wild spaces scheme.

This small 2009 expansion created the opportunity to reuse the old mixed African Plains exhibit, redeveloped into an enclosure for endangered Philippine endemic island animals such as Philippine spotted deer and Visayan warty pigs along with fishing cats.

In 2016 a new walkthrough aviary Gems of the Jungle was created for endangered Southeast Asian song birds.

This unusual and innovative partnership project was recognised by a BIAZA zoo education award in 2003 and 2016.