Georgie's Day

I used to think that conservationists were 'hippy type treehuggers'- meant in the nicest way of course.  BUT that is not true, anyone can be a conservationist from babies to great grandparents that visit our zoo for the day.  Hopefully our enthusiam and passion for what we do is infectious and makes for a magical and interesting day for our visitors too.

We send some of the money you pay to come in to see our cats, primates and smaller animals out to fund two projects very dear to our hearts and I am going to tell you about one of those today.

In Kudremukh, located in the Western Ghats of India, we fund (amongst many things) - a fabulous educational programme for the local people to help them safely live alongside one of the largest big cat predators in the world... the Indian tiger.

In the past this project has helped stop 30 tigers from being poached in one year.  Who would have thought that a tiny zoo on the Isle of Wight could be responsible for preventing horrible deaths to as much as 1% of the WORLD wild tiger population?!

So there you are, not only can you laugh at the monkeys’ antics, ‘oooh’ at the lions and jaguars and stroke a wallaby

, but when you walk across our threshold you are unwittingly becoming conservationists!

Look at you smiling!  You should be, you are helping us save TIGERS!!!

If you have visited the zoo and want to help us a little bit more please post comments and your photos on social media sites - Facebook, Twitter, Trip Advisor: more visitors means more money to send out to our projects, and better enriched lives for our cats in our zoo!!

Thank you for reading this,  I'm here every Monday!!