This mystery now solved - the planning application for the Butterfly House is on UKplanning.com - the new house is going on the old Maned Wolf enclosure.
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This mystery now solved - the planning application for the Butterfly House is on UKplanning.com - the new house is going on the old Maned Wolf enclosure.
It's about time something was done with that enclosure. Even when the wolves were in there, it wasn't the most interesting exhibit...
Can you post any details please?
Case File
It's all public because planning applications have to be
The plans and all related documents are on there as PDFs.
The house just seems a very nice, standard kind of butterfly house; thankfully a little more permanent than London's. It's L-shaped to fit the space.
Writhedhornbill
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Will there just be butterflies, or will there be some other animals too?
Sorry Maguari, forgot to say thank you.
No sweat
I'm quite looking forward to this building actually. Those who know me know I have a soft spot for things creepy and crawly so a dedicated invertebrate facility is just my kind of thing (even if it's specifically for a single order of insects...).
I'm quite looking forward to this building actually. Those who know me know I have a soft spot for things creepy and crawly so a dedicated invertebrate facility is just my kind of thing (even if it's specifically for a single order of insects...).
Good find!
This has always been a difficult corner site. If I remember correctly it was at one time used for hyaenas and then bagot goats, before the maned wolves - but none of them have been very satisfactory displays.
I hope that they will use the opportunity to add some more plantings and signs to the hedgerow along the zoo boundary which is supposed to be a 'natural' area. It would be nice to attract some British butterflies to make the path a mini nature trail.
Alan
This has always been a difficult corner site. If I remember correctly it was at one time used for hyaenas and then bagot goats, before the maned wolves - but none of them have been very satisfactory displays.
I hope that they will use the opportunity to add some more plantings and signs to the hedgerow along the zoo boundary which is supposed to be a 'natural' area. It would be nice to attract some British butterflies to make the path a mini nature trail.
Alan
Also Collared Peccary, which is the earliest thing I remember in that paddock (some time post-hyaena but pre-Maned Wolf).