0.3 lions are to be installed in a £500'000 enclosure, they will hopefully be rescued from a zoo in Armenia. https://www.facebook.com/7480437447...74804374475/10154082542524476/?type=3&theater
Well fingers crossed this works as well for them as it did for YWP,but given that it doesn't have such a large population near by for it to work as well,I also hope they take somebody on with experience in working with Big Cats,because at the moment they only have 1 member of staff that has,and from what I hear he is very rarely on-site these days!
That looks highly ambitious for £500,000, especially since they've got to build indoor dens as well as build and landscape the enclosure. Best of luck to them though.
Expecting a lot of landscaping will be done in house, the real cost will be the wooden walk way and very expensive curved grass.
I did wonder about that. Just as puzzling is why are Peak Wildlife Park building a lion cage when they do not believe in caging animals.
would the laws in the UK allow an open visitor walkway over a lion enclosure? Seems like the kind of thing that would be deemed somewhat dangerous.
Africa Alive in Suffolk has (or had on my last visit) a large balcony that overhangs the lion enclosure so such a walkway would not be unprecedented. Plus there's a number of places where you're essentially looking at large predators over an easily vaultable ditch. I can't remember any member of the public falling/climbing in in recent times.
There's another spot in Norfolk (one where cranes? nest on the chimney each year) where they've a walk way over a tiger enclosure - and said walkway is not very wide either. Nothing to stop an open air walkway so long as its high enough that the cats cannot leap up onto it; and of course nothing nearby that they could use as a leaping board into it. As said if they do landscaping in house or with a smaller team they might well get away with a lower budget. I know there's a team working in Norfolk doing river and pond work over the county who do extensive projects much cheaper than many large teams can because their team is only around 5 people or so.
Anyone know what happened to these lions? The Daily Mail were raising/or donating funds to rescue them to bring them over. Peak were building a new enclosure as well. Did the Armenian government change their mind or refuse to let them move? Just interested to know what happened
Yes - Thrigby, albeit Tigers... Thrigby - and Storks, not Cranes... Ought to be good - £500,000 for 3 lions... Sorry - just realised this thread was 4 years old...
£500,000 for 3 lions if only chester had the phone number for this builder they could have saved a fortune
