Friday, 29 July 2011

Enclosure Redesign

Our parks team are currently busy landscaping one of our enclosures ready for the arrival of some Bennett's wallabies.

This was our first ever tiger enclosure, and it has served the zoo very well over the past thirty years. However, it was a little isolated from the rest of the big cats and there wasn't any room for expansion. The team therefore decided to house all our tigers in The Tiger Sanctuary and Big Cat Territory areas of the zoo, leaving this enclosure free.

We though that wallabies would be a great addition to this area of the zoo. A walk-though area will mean that people can enter the enclosure and meet the animals.


Benches have already been installed, and now the parks team are busy laying turf. We're torn on whether it looks like it should house hobbits or tellytubbies! We hope to welcome the wallabies in the next two weeks.



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