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Zoo submits £70m park proposals

Bristol Zoo Gardens is planning a £70m world wildlife reserve to be sited in the city's outskirts.

The proposed 55 hectare National Wildlife Conservation Park (NWCP), will be the first conservation-led park in the UK.

The park has been designed to link ecosystems and conservation programmes from across the world.

Bristol Zoo Gardens director Dr Jo Gipps said once plans were submitted it had a major fundraising task ahead.

He said : "We are going to launch a campaign with organisations, corporations and rich individuals who will want to buy into this notion.

"[Visitors] stepping through the gates of the park will be transported from the normality of the [South} Gloucestershire countryside to an amazing world of wildlife," he said.

"The park will aim to make the children of today, the conservationists of tomorrow."

The NWCP will be divided into exhibit areas of Congo Tropical Forest, Sumatra Rainforest, British Ancient Woodland and Indian Ocean Coral Reef and will be home to tigers, black tip sharks, bonobos, chimpanzees and brown bears.

The first phase of the Park would be scheduled to open in 2012.
 
Hmmm the budget's been made bigger again.
Can anyone actually see this happening by 2012?
When will they start working on it?
 
It looks like the savannah, swamp and wetland areas have been scrapped from the plan then...

unless of course, the BBC article hasn't mentioned them.
 
As I thought, this project is a long way from seeing the light of day. Good luck to them with the fundraising, but I can't see £70m materialising in a hurry.
 
Lets hope they raise the cash, but £70 miliion in this day and age will be hard to raise.

Plus just over 3 years to open the first stage seems inlikely unless designs are well under way.
 
70 million i bet will be OUR tax!

and the savannah is to open much later apparently CZjimmy
 
Tigerlemurguy said:
70 million i bet will be OUR tax!

and the savannah is to open much later apparently CZjimmy
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70million certainly won't be coming from tax, most of that will be spent on the 2012 olympics. As the article says, funds are going to be souced from outside parties (although "organisations" may include the government).
 
zoogiraffe said:
No Belfast is the only zoo left in the U.K that is still owned and run by the local council,although many others have small collections or bird gardens but none are a full blown zoo.
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thanks for information, I really dont see the money coming from the government, I guess they will have to have a sort of sponsorship deals with firms.
 
Reading through the plans it looks as though manatees have been dropped from the plans, as have Indian rhino, being replaced by black rhino.
 
kiang said:
Reading through the plans it looks as though manatees have been dropped from the plans, as have Indian rhino, being replaced by black rhino.
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I don't know. The aerial map on that site still shows a 'nepal grasslands' zone and one of the major species that they could put here would be Indian rhinos. Manatees also appear in the banner at the top so i'd imagine bristol still want them...
 
kiang said:
Reading through the plans it looks as though manatees have been dropped from the plans, as have Indian rhino, being replaced by black rhino.
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Black rhino would be a better option, as indian rhino's can take up more room for the same amount of animals plus added expense of indoor heating pools!
 
CZJimmy said:
I don't know. The aerial map on that site still shows a 'nepal grasslands' zone and one of the major species that they could put here would be Indian rhinos. Manatees also appear in the banner at the top so i'd imagine bristol still want them...
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Would be nice to have more zoo in the UK keeping indian rhino's but the same case can be implied for black rhinos.
 
CZJimmy said:
I don't know. The aerial map on that site still shows a 'nepal grasslands' zone and one of the major species that they could put here would be Indian rhinos. Manatees also appear in the banner at the top so i'd imagine bristol still want them...
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Well done Poirot you spotted all the clues;)
 
I do hope they will get the rhino and manatee at some time, with spending all that money they will need some special exhibits and species to get people through the gates, and i think they could achieve this with what is planned.
But speaking of getting people in, maybe i am just a cynic but i noticed on the map a large blank area called the Chinese montane area, pandas anyone?
 
Possible they look like there undecided on whether to go with it or not, because the area is completely blank, but you can see potential enclosure indian rhions could go thou!

Panda's definitely would draw the crowds in
 
kiang said:
I do hope they will get the rhino and manatee at some time, with spending all that money they will need some special exhibits and species to get people through the gates, and i think they could achieve this with what is planned.
But speaking of getting people in, maybe i am just a cynic but i noticed on the map a large blank area called the Chinese montane area, pandas anyone?
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I think the Chinese area was mentioned earlier in this thread. Pandas would be the obvious choice, but i reckon they will go for something like Snow Leopards especially with doubts about raising the money to build the place.

Just to add to my earlier detective work (;)) there is a Costa Rica Swamp House, which is a perfect setting for West Indian Manatee perhaps...
 
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