Another new zoo, this one set in 30 acres of the Halfpenny Green Vineyard area in the heart of Staffordshire, is due to open around Easter 2016. The park, called WILD Zoological Park, will be divided up into several geographical regions including Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Amongst the species that will be included are: - Meerkats, otters, raccoons, coatis, skunks, kinkajou, civets, genets and Palawan binturong - Small monkeys (common marmosets are pictured in one exhibit concept picture) and lemurs - Wallabies, fruit bats and armadillos (the latter pictured in the same concept picture as the marmosets) - An extensive collection of exotic birds including macaws and Southern ground hornbills - Various reptiles, endangered amphibians and invertebrates The information is all taken from the new WILD Zoological Park Facebook page.
This is, it is worth noting, a spin-off from the following exotics encounter organisation: http://www.zacswildencounters.co.uk/ Be nice to have more civets, genets and binturongs around
Personally I wouldn't say this place is even close to been in the heart of Staffodrshire,given that its less 15 minutes from Wombourne which is most certainly in the West Midlands and closer to Birmingham then the heart of Staffordshire!
Here is the link to the Facebook page where the information came from: https://www.facebook.com/WILDZoologicalPark?fref=ts
No opening date revealed yet - but species that have recently arrived include: 1.1 Bare Eyed Cockatoo from Chessington and Paradise Park Cotton Top Tamarins Common Marmosets Black Tufted Marmosets 0.0.8 Red Necked Wallaby from Combe Martin
This was posted on the Facebook page on the 19th: Followed by this update yesterday: No further news as yet...
There was an image of her doing the rounds on Twitter yesterday. Looking pretty positive if they can get to her quickly.
The park has now announced via their Facebook page that they are going to be opening on the 31st July 2016. One species mentioned in this Facebook post that I have not seen mentioned previously is the margay. There is also a new website available, but there are currently no pages relating to the animals. The website is featured below: http://www.wildzoo.co.uk/
Species list as of there fb page Blue tongue skink Laughing kookaburra (from Linton zoo) Meerkats Bennett’s wallabies Palawan binturong Southern ground hornbill Kinkajou (Honey bear) Blue & gold macaw Milky eagle owl Eurasian eagle owl Scarlet ibis Red billed toucans Bare eyed cockatoo Cotton top tamarin Common Marmoset Black tufted marmoset Rainbow lorikeet Coatimundi Red eyed tree frog Egyptian fruit bats x 20 (from paradise wildlife park) Parma wallaby Also expected are Anaconda (species not known) Caiman (species not known) Macaw (several species) Armadillos (species not known) Monkeys Reptiles and Frogs With other new additions next year
From there Facebook page please read it's about the opening of the collection. https://www.facebook.com/WILDZoologicalPark/?notif_t=notify_me_page¬if_id=1469871613003801
A pedant might want to point out that the jaguarundi have gone into the collection but of course I would never dream of doing such a thing Alan
