Borth Animalarium Private Zoo For Sale

Paix said:
I did not say nobody should own zoos, what I believe is that Zoochatters (and this is regarding their personal money sums) should not attempt to start a zoo or buy a zoo unless they have a good few million, 5 at the least.

This country needs to have more world class zoos and starting more shed and aviary zoos is not going to help. Im sorry but this is my view. If I won the lottery, say 10 million, I would start a zoo, and if others on here did, I would encourage them too!
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I agree with that, you really do need the money to put into it and I wouldn't think of starting a zoo without less than £5-10 million. If I win the lottery I would think twice, and would definately work with other people (of different areas, inc. business specialists, people that work in various areas of large zoos, and yes, zoochatters) to see what I could do to make it work. Its not a project to go into on your own.
 
Javan Rhino said:
I agree with that, you really do need the money to put into it and I wouldn't think of starting a zoo without less than £5-10 million. If I win the lottery I would think twice, and would definately work with other people (of different areas, inc. business specialists, people that work in various areas of large zoos, and yes, zoochatters) to see what I could do to make it work. Its not a project to go into on your own.
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Make sure you take in my opinions and ideas, let me visit and wander through the zoo discussing with you. Cus thats the way I role. :D
 
Paix said:
Make sure you take in my opinions and ideas, let me visit and wander through the zoo discussing with you. Cus thats the way I role. :D
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Of course I would, so long as I had the choice of which animals to exhibit, how to layout the zoo, what breeding programmes to enter and naming the zoo/areas of it (plus a few exhibit suggestions, such as 'would glass viewing work here' and 'can we make this exhibit walk-through.')

I would also hold zoochat days where you all could give your opinions and feedback, as well as questionaires aimed at both casual zoo-goers and hardcore animal geeks. That way, I could see which exhibits were generally liked and which weren't and why.
 
Paix said:
I did not say nobody should own zoos, what I believe is that Zoochatters (and this is regarding their personal money sums) should not attempt to start a zoo or buy a zoo unless they have a good few million, 5 at the least.

This country needs to have more world class zoos and starting more shed and aviary zoos is not going to help. Im sorry but this is my view. If I won the lottery, say 10 million, I would start a zoo, and if others on here did, I would encourage them too!
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Firstly, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Secondly, I'd say we've got world class zoos already, if anything we should be expanding the ones we have. What I'd personally like to see is more specialist collections. Africa Alive exhibits some really interesting animals that don't get shown many other places because they have a specialist focus. Similarly, Monkey World has a bunch of different Gibbons in ace enclosures, I loved seeing the similarities and differences there, can you imagine London devoting that much space to various sub species of anything?
I'd like to see an Australian based centre personally, obviously that's unlikely at the moment, but I think it'd be lovely.
I particularly liked the Wild Arctic exhibit in Sea World, how nice would it be to develop a centre based on cold weather animals? Or nocturnal ones?
The ideas are endless.
 
Highlands Wildlife Park focuses on native species and species that are generally used to colder weather (tundra, conifer forest, mountains). I found this to be a lovely little collection, and they hold alot of animals found nowhere else in the UK, like Polar Bear, Blue Bharal, Markhor and Japanese Macaque. Also, the exhibits are really good and quite natural (tundra for polar bear, instead of the usual 'fake' arctic scene).
 
Devi said:
Firstly, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Secondly, I'd say we've got world class zoos already, if anything we should be expanding the ones we have. What I'd personally like to see is more specialist collections. Africa Alive exhibits some really interesting animals that don't get shown many other places because they have a specialist focus. Similarly, Monkey World has a bunch of different Gibbons in ace enclosures, I loved seeing the similarities and differences there, can you imagine London devoting that much space to various sub species of anything?
I'd like to see an Australian based centre personally, obviously that's unlikely at the moment, but I think it'd be lovely.
I particularly liked the Wild Arctic exhibit in Sea World, how nice would it be to develop a centre based on cold weather animals? Or nocturnal ones?
The ideas are endless.
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I would say Chester is our only world class zoo.
 
Borth Animalarium Private Zoo For Sale

I went to the zoo this summer,

needs a lot of TLC.:(
 
The September 2010 issue of 'Practical Reptile Keeping' has a full-page advert for the collection . On the opposite page is an article about the collection . Alan and Jean Mumbray have owned it for 10 years , when they bought it there were mostly rare breeds with a few mokeys , lemurs and tortoises . They brought with them their private collection of reptiles , birds and small mammals . One intriguing line I quote ' We also occasionally breed the caimans ( spectacled ) , but not as pets .'

I browse and sometimes buy the magazine . It is amazing the variety of species being held by private breeders . This issue has an article on Pygmy chameleons , fascinating but probably too small and cryptic to make a good zoo exhibit . What I do not like is the obsession many have with breeding more and more different colour varieties of many species .
 
Paix said:
I would say Chester is our only world class zoo.
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I would add Howletts and Port lypme to the list and Whipsnade. Although I have alot of time for zoo's like Borth and Dartmoor Zoological park as they have real character.
 
Frog said:
I would add Howletts and Port lypme to the list and Whipsnade. Although I have alot of time for zoo's like Borth and Dartmoor Zoological park as they have real character.
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Much that I love Howletts & Port Lypmne they are not world class zoos. They have world class breeding results in a number of areas, and the husbandry is good, but a collection with virtually no birds or herps really can't be classed as world class -to obtain that accolade and be compared with the great zoos of the world I believe you really have to have more diversity of wildlife on display (not just larger mammals & primates).

I also don't believe Whipsnade is world class either, but that's a gut reaction which I haven't worked out the fuzzy logic for yet.
 
Javan Rhino said:
How many times do you go around a zoo thinking 'it would be good if,' or 'wouldn't it be cool if there was an exhibit where' etc. I think we are all allowed to dream :)
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Part of our enjoyment of Yorkshire Wildlife park does come from chatting with people about future plans (and dreams)! Obviously no one takes our wish-list seriously "I'd like Sifakas" but the people in charge are very often around and happy to talk.
 
OrangePerson said:
Part of our enjoyment of Yorkshire Wildlife park does come from chatting with people about future plans (and dreams)! Obviously no one takes our wish-list seriously "I'd like Sifakas" but the people in charge are very often around and happy to talk.
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Exactly. I often enjoy simply designing zoos from scratch. I have a hundred and one ideas, and I'd eat my hat if even the one was actually and practically feasible :D
 
As anyone been recently and is the collection still for sale or have they found someone to buy it.
If anyone knows could they what there plans are for this year and in the future
 
I have been this week, there was a new guy doing the educational programme there. Its still up for sale but apparently they are in no rush. I talked to the girl in the shop, she said they will be building a new enclosure for the vervet monkeys they took in from dartmoor zoo as part of the new old world monkey section they started last summer and will finish this summer. Work has started on the new bigger enclosure that will look like this and be next door to..http://www.zoochat.com/1065/recent-developments-185064/
 
2012 Admission prices are £12 for adult and £8 for child - very expensive and bad value for money for such a small zoo!
 
Visited briefly whilst heading North last Friday . No obvious flood damage ,though ground very wet . The new enclosure next to the patas monkeys ( from Wingham ) houses a 2 year-old hand-reared lynx , who was very playful . A new crocodilian house with flexible partitioning houses a couple of their home-bred spectacled caiman and various turtles , with a Nile crocodile expected . The 17 year-old male leopard is still there .
 
Cage & Aviary Birds advertised again that zoo for sale has been reduced price to £650,000 due to personal illness.
 
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