orana wildlife park

Orana Wildlife Park appoints new CEO: From socials: We’re thrilled to report that Rachel Haydon has been appointed as our new Chief Executive! Orana is set to embark on an exciting new era of growth and innovation, with the appointment of Rachel as our new Chief Executive. Rachel brings...

Would be so cool to see Auckland and Hamilton import either blue or black wildebeest and follow the careful protocol but then they could both have a small herd of wildebeest each (unique in Australasia) and could exchange individuals to avoid inbreeding, and eventually Orana and Keystone could...

Introduction The focus of this thread is to share ideas and rumours of future developments at Orana Wildlife Park.

Orana Wildlife Park Review (June 2024) Introduction Welcome to my review of Orana Wildlife Park, which I visited on June 29, 2024. This was my third visit, having previously visited as a child in 2003; and then again in 2015. This time I visited with one of my sons (aged two and a half); and...

This is to judge which of NZ's 4 major zoo's (Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington & Orana) is the best. Feel free to share and discuss your opinions in the thread, I would love to hear them. May the best zoo win! I have included some images from the gallery to refresh people's opinions, and to give...

Introduction I thought it’d be good to have a thread dedicated to discussion of this import since it will be a large scale, ongoing event across the next three years; to avoid clogging up the news threads of the zoos involved; and to avoid taking over the rhinoceros population thread, which as...

A review of “New Zealand’s only open range zoo” I visited Orana Wildlife Park in Christchurch for the first time ever on the 5th of January 2016, and for some reason I am only getting round to writing a review now… I remember my visit quite well, and I want to start writing reviews for other...