There's nothing quite like a trip to the zoo and while it's a sad week for the millions of us who visited Bristol Zoo, which closes on Saturday, September 3, there's still a brilliant place to see beautiful animals and have fun just a stone's throw from the Severn Bridge.
The Wild Place Project, which was opened by the Bristol Zoological Society back in 2013, is a wildlife park which will house the animals currently at the historic 186-year-old Bristol Zoo and it focuses on protecting threatened habitats on our doorsteps and around the globe. Bristol Zoo in Clifton has been open to the public since 1836, a staggering 90 million visitors have dropped by for a day out, all whilst the zoo helped to save around 175 species from extinction through its extensive conservation work.
At the Wild Place Project - the Clifton zoo's sister site at Blackhorse Hill in Bristol - you'll find European brown bears in the Bear Wood, who live side-by-side with European grey wolves, Eurasian lynxes and wolverines. There's the Madagascan village which is home to mongoose lemurs, ring-tailed lemurs, white-belted ruffed lemurs and our Alaotran gentle lemurs.
