Bristol Zoo Project NWCP to open in July as......

I also have photos ready to post as soon as there is a Gallery to put them in

Alan

 

Is it the one named The Wild Place? Or is that somewhere else?

 

No definite article, just 'Wild Place' or 'Wild Place Project'.

Alan

 

OK, it's just there's nothing in that gallery, so i thought it must have been intended for this 'Wild Place'. There must be another place with an almost identical name!?

 

No, the 'The Wild Place' gallery is for this collection - The Wild Place Gallery - it has the right website links etc.

I will be going for the first time (no doubt with a number of other Zoochatters!) on 15th September as part of the Zoohistorica event.

 

Alan- as Maguari says, 'The Wild Place' has been created now in the UK gallery for here. Unfortunately I don't have the wherewithall to remove the 'The.'

 

Photos posted now. I was looking at the Ws.
Enjoy!

Alan

 

Have the lemurs in the walkthrough come from the Bristol zoo walkthrough or are they newly sourced? And if they did move from Bristol what's in that space now?

 

I spoke to one of the keepers at Wild Place, and they said the lemurs came from the Bristol Zoo walk through, and there is now a new bachelor group on ring tale lemurs at Bristol zoo.

 

Presumably further work is scheduled for the autumn/winter to get more on view for next summer - any idea what will be the next stage?

 

Thank you. I thought they looked like familiar lemurs in the pictures, but its been so long since I worked in the old walkthrough I could easily have been wrong. I'm hoping to make it to Bristol next month and will have to pop in here now too to see the mongoose lemurs-would've been disappointed to miss them.

 

Both ringtails and mongoose?

 

Their website is reporting that 10,000 people visited in the first month of operation, and 500 purchased season tickets.

Not sure if those are good figures or not: on the one hand, it's a fair number of people to visit a very small collection of animals, but on the other hand this is the busiest time of year by far, so 10,000 may not be so very many after all.

 

That's an average of 333 people per day which is in line with what I saw when I visited. They could fit some more in, but the facilities could not handle much larger numbers at this stage. I don't think that they have done very much publicity work (at least compared to the advertising of Noah's Ark's elephants). But they have made a start and they now have an income stream to pay the staff and support further developments.

Alan

 

And equally important, ensured the right to continue keeping wild/exotic animals on the site, which may have lapsed if they hadn't started this when they did.

 

How close is the Cribb's Causeway shopping centre? To have a steady supply of families looking for something to do after a couple of hours "retail therapy" must help, if only in terms of advertising.

 

I am quite comfortable with this way of proceeding with building the NCWP and thus come away from the myth of talking plans and not being able to accomplish anything. Given the fact only a small segment of the original plan is now in place, the attendance figures (without any significant markering and PR) are IMO quite good.

I would assume that given 1-2 years the facility will have much more to offer.

Anyone have any idea if there are already preliminary indications as to what project(s) they have lined up for 2014?

Any further new planning documents or schedule for future further exhibitry?

 

It's VERY close - only a mile or so away at most. Got to be a help (helped us - we're staying at Travelodge Cribbs Causeway for Zoohistorica!).

 

Almost spitting distance....