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Lions and Tigers
30-08-2008

Our creationist friends at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm have decided to save lions and tigers from the Flood. The first stage will be a tiger exhibit. They are planning to bring in five tigers, both Amur and Bengal (and there was me thinking the animals came in two by two). See these articles for more:

Tigers could soon be kept at Wraxall zoo attraction

Tigers on the way to Wraxall?

Planning permission has yet to be granted, but plans of the exhibit can be viewed here:

North Somerset Council - Search planning applications

What's more, their five year plan apparently includes elephants and bears! What chance of Bristol Zoo's new wildlife park ever happening with this on their doorstep?

31-08-2008

Have know about these plans for awhile,the most worrying thing is they are not planning on bringing in a keeper with experience of handling big cats the owner is going to train the staff himself and hes got vast experience with domestic farm cats!!!!!(Well just read the links it now it appears that they are going to employ a keeper that knows what they are doing can only think that joining BIAZA has made them start to do things differently because they were definatly not going to employ an experienced keeper when i first heard of the plans)

31-08-2008

[quote=Chris79;69847]Our creationist friends at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm have decided to save lions and tigers from the Flood. The first stage will be a tiger exhibit. They are planning to bring in five tigers, both Amur and Bengal (and there was me thinking the animals came in two by two).

Well they are doing it wrong then because according to the bible they should have SEVEN of each of any species considered to be a clean animal and only TWO of any un-clean species,nice to see them been selective of which bit of their beliefs they try to subject us to.

31-08-2008

Just discovered the place is now listed on ISIS as WRAXALL.

31-08-2008

The article mentions a barrier one metre from the enclosure. That's only 3 feet...
Is that legal...?

31-08-2008

wow, i think this collection has got great potential!

31-08-2008

It does have great potential as an accident waiting to happen as far as i`m concerned its only a question of what and when.

31-08-2008

i think i might go here in a few weeks having a zoo trip down south so want to checkin on old nessbit

31-08-2008

I feel that comment could be made about one or two other zoos in the Uk at present, which have recently been taken over by people with little or no previous experience of large scale or dangerous animal-keeping... I'm sure they have the correct licences to operate, and maintain any existing experienced staff where possible etc, but it goes back to that old saying about 'anybody can open a zoo.'

31-08-2008

i think its a BIG step in the right dirrection for the park!

31-08-2008

Your are of course quite right but how many of the others keep a pair of White Rhino behind just a electric fence and chain link fence with wooden fence posts,i would hazard a guess none although the place has improved a hell of alot since my first visit 4 years ago its still miles behind in terms of quality of exhibits.Yes they do have all the correct licences to open,as for the experience of the staff they are all very young and have been trained by the owner who is a very experienced dairy farmer.

31-08-2008

[quote=zoogiraffe;70005.Yes they do have all the correct licences to open,as for the experience of the staff they are all very young and have been trained by the owner who is a very experienced dairy farmer.[/QUOTE]

I've never been so I am not in a position to criticise or otherwise though the setup is pretty self evident from their website.. There are a few other Uk zoos originally set up by farmers-Marwell, Banham, Africa Alive though this one seems more simply a commercial venture....

01-09-2008

Let's hope that they do get permission to keep lions and tigers, it could work in some zoo's favour, like Chester's way of getting rid of their Bengals, and maybe another collection getting shut of some spare lions, but lets hope they don't want any of those dreaded white lions from wmsp.....

01-09-2008

As much as i want Chester get rid of the Bengals i would rather see them at Chester than them go to Noahs.

01-09-2008

[quote=Chris79;69847]Our creationist friends at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm have decided to save lions and tigers from the Flood. The first stage will be a tiger exhibit. They are planning to bring in five tigers, both Amur and Bengal (and there was me thinking the animals came in two by two). See these articles for more:

where might the Amurs be coming from?