View of Snow Leopard enclosure

Seems pretty barren.

Between Lakeland Wildlife Oasis and South Lakes it seems that snow leopards are not kept in very nice exhibits. A couple more rubbish little zoos to avoid if I ever visit Europe!

Well given that the whole exhibit was done for less than 45,000 pounds I think they have done a pretty good job,but then I keep forgetting every thing is perfect over in North American collections.

I suppose that one could say that this snow leopard exhibit has its medium size going for it, but I'm not sure why it is so barren and bleak. Is there anything growing in the cage except for a couple of little plants? There are photos from different angles and none of them show anything half-decent so I'm not sure why folks get defensive over what is possibly a very subpar enclosure. Zoo exhibits that get criticized are eventually renovated or demolished, and that is a bonus for both visitors and the captive animals.

Why spend £45,000 on this and have a sub-standard snow leopard enclosure when that money could have been better put to use elsewhere?

I'm affraid I fail to see the appeal in visiting a place like this.. I'm not even sure what purpose a place like this has?

Because they have brought in more money than the cost of building this exhibit already,hence they now have more money to do other things,like building what will be the largest Tree Shrew exhibit in the UK!

I am not saying they need to build a million pound exhibit. But how hard would it be to put a boulder or tree stump in there? (Unless there are more items in the side of the exhibit I am not seeing in this photo).

At least it looks clean, compared to' somewhere else not far away' though I can't see in the Den obviously. I would say this is simple and functional and the floor looks good and dry. The main thing missing IMO seems to be a large pile of naturalistic boulders in the centre, or something like that. Re Plants; Snow Leopard often live in very barren habitat so I think plants are less important here than some more rockwork.

I have only visited this collection once, while this exhibit was under construction, so I don't know what is in the parts not shown in the photo: there are two questions that arise in my mind - can the leopard get out of sight of the public and can it climb at all? It would seem strange to construct a fairly tall exhibit but only furnish it at ground level.

Alan