Peak Wildlife Park Rescue lions

Well fingers crossed this works as well for them as it did for YWP,but given that it doesn't have such a large population near by for it to work as well,I also hope they take somebody on with experience in working with Big Cats,because at the moment they only have 1 member of staff that has,and from what I hear he is very rarely on-site these days!
 
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That looks highly ambitious for £500,000, especially since they've got to build indoor dens as well as build and landscape the enclosure. Best of luck to them though.
 
Shorts said:
That looks highly ambitious for £500,000, especially since they've got to build indoor dens as well as build and landscape the enclosure. Best of luck to them though.
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Expecting a lot of landscaping will be done in house, the real cost will be the wooden walk way and very expensive curved grass.
 
sooty mangabey said:
Excellent piece of hopeless local journalism, describing Armenia as a "war zone". Dear me....
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I did wonder about that.

Just as puzzling is why are Peak Wildlife Park building a lion cage when they do not believe in caging animals.
 
wow, looks very impressive, will be interesting to see what it turns out like!
 
would the laws in the UK allow an open visitor walkway over a lion enclosure? Seems like the kind of thing that would be deemed somewhat dangerous.
 
Chlidonias said:
would the laws in the UK allow an open visitor walkway over a lion enclosure? Seems like the kind of thing that would be deemed somewhat dangerous.
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Africa Alive in Suffolk has (or had on my last visit) a large balcony that overhangs the lion enclosure so such a walkway would not be unprecedented.

Plus there's a number of places where you're essentially looking at large predators over an easily vaultable ditch.

I can't remember any member of the public falling/climbing in in recent times.
 
There's another spot in Norfolk (one where cranes? nest on the chimney each year) where they've a walk way over a tiger enclosure - and said walkway is not very wide either.

Nothing to stop an open air walkway so long as its high enough that the cats cannot leap up onto it; and of course nothing nearby that they could use as a leaping board into it.



As said if they do landscaping in house or with a smaller team they might well get away with a lower budget. I know there's a team working in Norfolk doing river and pond work over the county who do extensive projects much cheaper than many large teams can because their team is only around 5 people or so.
 
Anyone know what happened to these lions? The Daily Mail were raising/or donating funds to rescue them to bring them over. Peak were building a new enclosure as well.
Did the Armenian government change their mind or refuse to let them move? Just interested to know what happened
 
Chlidonias said:
would the laws in the UK allow an open visitor walkway over a lion enclosure? Seems like the kind of thing that would be deemed somewhat dangerous.
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Yes - Thrigby, albeit Tigers...

overread said:
There's another spot in Norfolk (one where cranes? nest on the chimney each year) where they've a walk way over a tiger enclosure - and said walkway is not very wide either...
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Thrigby - and Storks, not Cranes...

Tau said:
wow, looks very impressive, will be interesting to see what it turns out like!
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Ought to be good - £500,000 for 3 lions...

Sorry - just realised this thread was 4 years old...
 
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