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JULY
Special Senses Day Details to be confirmed. Please check the website nearer the time.
Survival Night
If you have ever wondered how you would cope in the wild, then Newquay Zoo can show you!
On Saturday 18th July staff are holding a special ‘Survival Night’ where you can learn survival tips from the experts, as well as take part in fun activities including camouflage face painting, tasting weird food and challenging tasks.
Lorraine Reid, Events Organiser said ‘‘This is a fun opportunity to learn handy survival tips that will help any budding explorers. A tasty barbeque is also included in the price.’’
The event takes place from 7pm till 9.30 pm and is a ticket only event. It is £14.95 per adult and £9.95 per child including the BBQ.
A great family event. For more information and to book your tickets call 01637 873342.
Wild Breakfast Join staff for a Wild Breakfast at Newquay Zoo
The ever popular Wild Breakfast at Newquay Zoo returns for another year.
It's an early start on Saturday 26th July with a tour of the grounds with zoo keepers beginning at 5am. Watch the animals wake up and help to prepare their breakfast before tucking into an ‘early bird' cooked breakfast yourself.
Lorraine Reid, Event Organizer said ‘‘this is a great opportunity to watch the animals wake up and to experience the zoo at another time of the day. You will have a chance to see nocturnal animals getting ready for bed as normally visitors only see them asleep during the day. Enjoy breakfast on the patio while over looking the Lemur island lake. This is a very popular event so book early to avoid dissapointment.''
This is a ticketed event which includes breakfast and a drink, plus all day admission to the zoo, so you can enjoy all the zoo has to offer including the newly opened Philippine species exhibit and the African Savannah enclosure.
To book your tickets please phone 01637 873342. It costs £14.95 per adult and 9.95 per child.
AUGUST
AUGUST MADAGASCAN NIGHTS Open LATE every Wednesday until 8.30pm (last entry 7.30pm).
Join us for an enjoyable evening in the Zoo with sights and sounds that you have not previously experienced as the sun goes down and the Zoo takes on a totally different more exotic atmosphere.
Enjoy the mix of talks, a touch table, children's crafts, face painting and a children's activities, gift shop, BBQ, ice creams and refreshments. Hot drinks and food are available from the Café Lemur
restuarant.
This evening event not only highlights some of the animals from the amazing island of Madagascar but also the new arrivals in our new African Savanna exhibit and the new Philippine species and much more.
5.15pm Asian short-clawed otters ;in the Oriental Gardens
5.45pm Talk and walk a talk at the amazing Madagascan Fossa ,our Lion and onto the Meerkats
6.30pm Mini Tour. Taking in three country's starting with Madagascar with our Ring-tail Lemurs followed by Philippine species and then onto Africa and the new Savanna Exhibit.
8.00pm A special Tropical House scatter feed cgives you a chance to see a variety of exotic animals including sloth's, bats, birds and a collection of minibeasts in the bug room.
Last entry is at 7:30pm and the gates close at 8.30pm
Wild Breakfast 23rd August.
Join staff for a Wild Breakfast at Newquay Zoo
The ever popular Wild Breakfast at Newquay Zoo returns for another year.
It's an early start on Saturday 26th July with a tour of the grounds with zoo keepers beginning at 5am. Watch the animals wake up and help to prepare their breakfast before tucking into an ‘early bird' cooked breakfast yourself.
Lorraine Reid, Event Organizer said ‘‘this is a great opportunity to watch the animals wake up and to experience the zoo at another time of the day. You will have a chance to see nocturnal animals getting ready for bed as normally visitors only see them asleep during the day. Enjoy breakfast on the patio while over looking the Lemur island lake. This is a very popular event so book early to avoid dissapointment.''
This is a ticketed event which includes breakfast and a drink, plus all day admission to the zoo, so you can enjoy all the zoo has to offer including the newly opened Philippine species exhibit and the African Savannah enclosure.
To book your tickets please phone 01637 873342. It costs £14.95 per adult and 9.95 per child.
World War Zoo 30th and 31st August.
Newquay Zoo is remembering World War Two with its own wartime garden project.
World War Zoo launches on the 30th and 31st August, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two in September. The project focuses on how zoos and families survived shortages during the war and the role that zoos played when they reopened after initial closure.
Mark Norris Head of Education explains ‘‘World War Zoo is about looking back and looking forward, learning from the past to prepare for our future. The project developed from a chance discovery that zoos were closed in the early weeks of World War Two, and struggled throughout. This was a time when food was short, and animals didn’t get ration books. Staffing was low with keepers being called up to fight, and repairs were difficult.’’
‘‘ Today as an award winning Green Tourism Business, Newquay Zoo is tackling similar issues that the home front would have dealt with – rising fuel costs, recycling waste and thinking about future food sources. Our Wartime Garden project reflects the Dig for Victory gardens that sprang up in unlikely places all over the country, including zoos. It will also act as a living memorial to the bravery of many ordinary men, women and children.’’
Newquay Zoo already recycles, composts and think about food miles when sourcing food for the café, and now the Victory Garden will demonstrate how keepers would grow food for the animals.
‘‘Hopefully we’ll get a good crop before the weather turns’’ says Mark. ‘‘We have been tracking down wartime gardening and cookery books and they were surprisingly close to organic garden methods today. Some wartime varieties are hard to source today but this is very much a garden for the future with all the unpredictability of climate change to consider as well.’’
To bring the period alive for families and schools visiting the zoo, staff members have been collecting wartime memorabilia and evocative items from everyday life of keepers, families, evacuated children and zoo visitors. It is hoped that visitors will contribute their stories and experiences for the archive as they visit the zoo.
Newquay Zoo was the first attraction in Cornwall to win Gold accreditation in the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS); a Europe-wide initiative recognising accommodation providers and visitor attractions that are taking action to support both the local area and the wider environment. For further information please visit www.green-business.co.uk
Zoos throughout the country were closed during the first few weeks of War in September 1939. However they were re-opened and supported as a way to boost morale.
The World War Zoo and Wartime Garden project links with DCFS government education initiatives on Sustainable Schools Initiative, School Grounds and Gardens, Healthy Eating, Every Child Matters, Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto, the new primary school curriculum and 2008-13 Vocational Diplomas for secondary schools.
SEPTEMBER
Ugly Bug Night 18th September.
Join us for an interesting close up look into the world of mini beasts and other critters. Find out why lemurs love giant millipedes and why you wouldn't want to kiss a cane toad. These and other fun facts from 6.30pm to 9pm, £7.95 per person. Drink and cookie included. Ticket only event.
OCTOBER
The Big Draw Dates and times to be confirmed. Enter our fun drawing competition as part of the national 'Big Draw campaign'. Draw your favourite animal or even invent a new one! Enter your work for the chance to win an animal adoption of your choice. Further details will be available on our website nearer the time.
Halloween Trail 24th October to 1st November.
Listen to spooky stories at lunchtime (12.15pm), make a Halloween mask or create a pumpkin face in our art workshop.
Halloween MONSTER Bash 31st October.
Things that go bump in the night! Follow the challenging trail around the Zoo with ghoulish games and prizes for the best fancy dress adults and children. Starts at 6.30pm and finishes at 9.30pm. A hot drink and cookie included, other refreshments available. Ticket only event. Please call for prices and to book tickets.
NOVEMBER
Snake Day 15th November.
Come into the warm and meet our Royal Python ‘Monty' and his keeper also Ssssssnake masks and crafts in the Tropical House.
DECEMBER
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES AT NEWQUAY ZOO
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STARLIGHT CHRISTMAS at Newquay Zoo
From 1st December to 8th February you can enjoy a Starlight Trail highlighting animals of what we call our ‘ZOODIAC' with fun clues and constellations. Plus a free glow bracelet for every child that visits the zoo during December, while stocks last.
On the Sunday 14th December we will be holding our Zoo Carol Service at 3:30pm with hymns, carols and animal encounters on the patio by the lake.
Santa's Grotto will be open on the 7th, 14th and 21st December between 11:30am and 3:30pm.
The zoo is open throughout Christmas, except Christmas Day, from 10am until 5pm (last entry 4pm).
| Please call or check the zoo website for times and entry prices to the Christmas events and the latest information. |
