Marwell Wildlife FLIGHT, Marwell's 2010 Conservation Campaign

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Zambar

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FLIGHT appeal takes off!

The 2010 campaign will be raising towards creating a nature reserve for native wildlife at Marwell following a recent survey showing decreasing wild bird numbers, to open in 2011. Money will also go towards ostrich reintroduction programmes in Niger.
I suspect that the developed reserve will cover the woods next to the entrance and Horsham Copse, the wood next to the African Valley which has been planned as a wildlife reserve for a while now. The former is the site of the planned British Woodland biome, which will probably coincide with the new entrance area which starts work in the next two or three years.
 
I shall make sure to include a bit extra when I renew my annual pass when I get paid at the end of the month. :)
 
I think its a great idea to build a nature reserve to be built within a zoo, its always good to promote native wildlife as well as foreign. I think not enough zoos do this and tend to focus so much on the threats of foreign rarer animals rather than focusing on native wildlife which is also under threat. A good bit of education could be tied in with this too to educate visitors about caring for native wildlife etc. It seems a good move for Marwell.
 
Yep, I think the plan to open Horsham Copse to the north of the park free to non-visitors too will be a great move to show the range of Marwell's work, and they'll be wildlife hides in there to get people close to the wildlife. :)
 
Just got back from a very good member's talk at Marwell. The focus was a talk by Ashley Smith of the Hawk Conservancy, talking about it's early days as Weyhill Wildlife Park, telling us some absolutely hilarious stories of what they got up to (:D) and it's work as a trust today. But before that, the Bird/Lower Vertabrate Curator Gordon gave a talk on development of the park's bird collection, including some new aviaries in the coming years such as a large netted flamingo aviary (something I've always wanted to see), the tamarin walk-through being converted into a walk-through aviary and a new enclosure for Black-Headed Weaverbirds in the old hyrax enclosure.
 
Oooh, fantastic news! Glad to hear that the walkthrough will be used again soon. And I would imagine the Weaverbird enclosure is going to look fantastic. Good news on the flamingos too!! :)
 
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