Centre for Fortean Zoology

Centre for Fortean Zoology

Abbreviation	CFZ
Formation	1992
Type	Nonprofit organization
Headquarters	Woolfardisworthy, North Devon
Region served	Worldwide
Director	Jonathan Downes
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,

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.

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

Since 2000, the CFZ has promoted an annual conference called The Weird Weekend.

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.

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