Abbreviation CFZ Region served Worldwide Founded 1992 Leader Jonathan Downes | Formation 1992 Founder Jonathan Downes Director Jonathan Downes Type Nonprofit organization | |
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Headquarters Woolfardisworthy, North Devon Website Centre for Fortean Zoology | ||
Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) is an organisation dedicated to cryptozoology, and allied disciplines. According to the CFZ, it is a non-profit organisation founded in 1992 by Jonathan Downes and its honorary life president is the British explorer John Blashford-Snell,
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Fortean zoology
According to the CFZ, its primary focus involves unknown animals, or cryptozoology but they also examine unusual and aberrant animal behavior, animal mutilations, animal colour variants, teratology, animal folklore, classic Fortean subjects as creature falls (fafrotskies), and vampire/werewolf reports.
Expeditions
CFZ members have carried out expeditions in the UK, including Cannock, Bolam Lake, and the Lake District, as well as foreign locations such as The Gambia (2006) and Tasmania
Weird Weekend
Since 2000, the CFZ has promoted an annual conference called The Weird Weekend.
Publications
CFZ Press publishes a journal entitled Animals & Men, which was founded in 1994. The magazine covers a wide range of phenomena that fall into the broad category of Cryptozoology.