Golders Hill Park and Zoo Golder's Hill Park Zoo, London

Ring-tailed lemurs are now at Golders Hill. They came from the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and have a large enclosure full of ropes and branches where the crane aviary used to be. I can add pictures if anyone would like to see it.

Also, I'm not sure if they were previously affiliated but there is a large sign saying they are a member of BIAZA.

EDIT: they joined BIAZA last year as per my earlier post
 
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Shirokuma said:
Ring-tailed lemurs are now at Golders Hill. They came from the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and have a large enclosure full of ropes and branches where the crane aviary used to be. I can add pictures if anyone would like to see it.

Also, I'm not sure if they were previously affiliated but there is a large sign saying they are a member of BIAZA.
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Excellent news. I would quite like to see photos. I enjoy the sight of smaller zoos taking on the challenge of climbing oportunities, and providing a "large enclosure full of ropes and branches".
 
Here are some pictures. Viewing isn't great as the fences need to be fox and person proof due to the park being completely open (although I guess the gates are locked at night).

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Good to see its back on its feet again, there is alot to be said in praise of these small collections , it is true to say that the larger collections are , these days , getting far too expensive for a family day out.
Is Golders council- run ? Does anyone know who took over from Ben Potterton in charge of the place?
 
Shirokuma said:
Here are some pictures. Viewing isn't great as the fences need to be fox and person proof due to the park being completely open (although I guess the gates are locked at night).

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That enclosure looks fantastic. Theres seems to be hundreds of climbing oportunities! And its so simple! Excellent!
 
I was surprised and impressed too when I saw it, I haven't been to the park in ages and when I was last there they had just started work but I didn't know what it was for.

From an aesthetic point of view I really don't like the enclosures in the park other than the deer paddock but they've done well with what they've got.
 
thanks for the info and the pictures , the ringtails were originally from monkey world and have been at YWP over a year where we saw lots of them ! everyone was settled fine but then youngsters were born which disrupted everything and the lemurs had to be put into 2 groups , they are a feisty foursome ! their new home looks lovely im glad ive seen where they have gone x
 
mazzy said:
thanks for the info and the pictures , the ringtails were originally from monkey world and have been at YWP over a year where we saw lots of them ! everyone was settled fine but then youngsters were born which disrupted everything and the lemurs had to be put into 2 groups , they are a feisty foursome ! their new home looks lovely im glad ive seen where they have gone x
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It will be interesting to see this collection develop. For a focus on local wildlife ..., one requires sufficient time. I WOULD love to see dormice and the like, sand lizards, wart biters et al as an extension of the work by several major UK zoos.

Is ZSL in any way involved with management?
 
Shirokuma said:
I was surprised and impressed too when I saw it, I haven't been to the park in ages and when I was last there they had just started work but I didn't know what it was for.

From an aesthetic point of view I really don't like the enclosures in the park other than the deer paddock but they've done well with what they've got.
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I agree, but unfortunately I would imagine that they need to make the enclosures reasonably vandal-proof in this day and age which obviously results in relatively poor viewing.
 
I passed by for the first time in ages this afternoon. Main change I noticed was that the rheas are in with the fallow deer in the large paddock and there is now an adoption scheme.

You can adopt ring-tailed lemur, coati, donkey, eagle owl, kookaburra or whistling duck.

They have also started a childrens club called 'golders griffins'.
 
Last Tues/Wed,I visited Golders Hill Park Zoo,I hadn't been for about 12 years, then it had Blackbuck,Wallabies and a fine herd ofFallow Deer,when I visited I saw one coati, one ring tailed lemur, about four fallow deer, a greater rhea and a few species of bird in aviaries,apart from quite a good waders aviary they had little else of interest .Instead of a donkey and a couple of maras in a paddock why not have a flock of Soay Sheep for instance?across the other side of the park was a disused butterfly house or it seemed to be on my visit.I know times are hard but I am sure thatthey can do better and makesure that people want to go, even if it is a free zoo.
 
crested seriema said:
Last Tues/Wed,I visited Golders Hill Park Zoo,I hadn't been for about 12 years, then it had Blackbuck,Wallabies and a fine herd ofFallow Deer,when I visited I saw one coati, one ring tailed lemur, about four fallow deer, a greater rhea and a few species of bird in aviaries,apart from quite a good waders aviary they had little else of interest .Instead of a donkey and a couple of maras in a paddock why not have a flock of Soay Sheep for instance?
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I visited Golders Hill Park over the Easter weekend for the first time in many years. I was also very disappointed as the collection had been reduced since my last visit and compared to previous visits it looked generally shabby.

You mention that you only saw one coati, a single ring-tailed lemur and a solitary donkey. I certainly saw several ring-tailed lemurs and two coatis; there were also two donkeys.

Overall, I agree with you; the collection was nowhere near as interesting as it once was; with a little imagination, I am sure it could easily be improved. However, it is a free zoo and I assume finances are stretched so I guess we shouldn't really complain too much.

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across the other side of the park was a disused butterfly house or it seemed to be on my visit.
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The Butterfly House was opened over Easter.
 
The butterfly house closes early and is pretty low on stock. I miss the flamingos, they had a lovely collection up until ten years ago. They need a donation box on site.
 
Cutehampstead said:
......I miss the flamingos,.....
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When I first visited Golders Hill Park, back in the 1970s, the flamingos were living on the park's lake; on subsequent visits they were confined to one of the aviaries and now, of course, there are no flamingos there at all.
 
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Tim May said:
When I first visited Golders Hill Park, back in the 1970s, the flamingos were living on the park's lake; on subsequent visits they were confined to one of the aviaries and now, of course, there are no flamingos there at all.
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Yes I thought the Flamingoes made the lake,I hadn't been to the park since the late 1990a, then there seemed to be several varieties of waterfowl but when I visited early this month there seemed only to be Mallards,Pigeons and Moorhens,I know when there were the storms of 1987 they damaged the paddock where they had Blackbuck etc down at the bottom of the childrens zoo.
 
I had never visited GHP when it had flamingoes. From my very very quick visit years ago,i was not much impressed by it's tiny shadowy footprint. The butterfly house was ok. I've heard they are shifting towards a British species little exhibit for the future.and the butterfly house is no more. Given its small footprint in a larger park,heres uncertain hopes for it
 
Was the butterfly house, currently closed, located within the Zoo grounds, or was it in the park but outside the grounds?
 
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