 More than 25 million people visit BIAZA collections every year including 1.3 million children on organised education trips.BIAZA encourages its members to develop an effective education system aiming to conserve the natural world in a number of ways by motivating people to change their habits, inspiring people to get involved with conservation and encouraging people to donate to particular conservation programmes.Research in BIAZA zoos and aquariums aims to gather knowledge that benefits the conservation of threatened species.