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Noah's Ark in Kwazulu-Natal

Discussion in 'South Africa' started by DesertRhino150, 18 Nov 2020.

  1. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    A new conservation park called Noah's Ark is being crowdfunded by British entrepreneur Richard Prinsloo Curson.

    The park will cover an area of 100 square kilometres, with plans to build it on the northeast coast of Kwazulu-Natal. The entire project will likely cost around £5-billion (R100-billion).

    The development will feature a national park containing South African wildlife, the world's biggest aquarium and geodomes containing artificial environments replicating Antarctica and the Amazon rainforest.

    The project is hoped to progress over the next five years, which will be documented in a 12-part television series that is currently being filmed.

    A news article is included here:
    Conservation park worth R100-billion to be built in KwaZulu-Natal

    The official website for Noah's Ark is included below:
    Noah's Ark - A state-of-the-art wildlife conservation park in South Africa

    I have to say, a lot of it looks like pie-in-the-sky to me (especially with that time-frame) but I guess we shall see what happens.
     
  2. Rayane

    Rayane Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Seems like they use the word "conservation" as a crowdfunding argument.
     
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  3. David Matos Mendes

    David Matos Mendes Well-Known Member

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    It seems to be really utopic to me. Don't wanna be annoying, but where is the money coming from to build something that looks to be the world's largest conservation area? Are my eyes seeing right when they say it's only from donations?
     
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  4. David Matos Mendes

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    @CheeseChameleon2007 This Noah's Ark project is probably the most alike to your dream zoo that we have until now :D Although it seems a little impossible.
     
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  5. Mai Thai

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    Is it just me or does this thing remind you of Jurassic World!;)
     
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