As Wingham Wildlife Park has continued to grow, specialize and constantly strive to improve our husbandry we have had to make a decision to change where we get our fresh produce was. In the past, we had received around 95% of our fruit and vegetables from supermarkets sending us their waste. This was always sufficient…
It has been a little while since I’ve written a blog post, but the other day I was doing some invertebrate surveying in the new bug garden and I just had to write about all the wildlife which we see at the park. We are of course a wildlife park, and we mostly specialise in exotic…
While doing our evening park tour last night we had a few people asking about the best way to support the parks at this time, and it’s a question which come sup quite often, so I decided yesterday to write this article about how you can best help us during this time. The first lockdown…
Turning your garden in to a refuge for wildlife can be small and simple or you can go big and elaborate. Any little change you can make in your garden can make a big difference for wildlife in your area. We are in the process of setting up a big new exhibit here which will…
Whether we are open or closed, to run our park on average costs a minimum of £52,600 per week. This doesn’t include unexpected veterinary bills, unexpected repair work and of course Sandwich Wildlife Park, with both parks being funded together. By helping one of our parks, you are invariably helping the animals at both parks!…
On 7th September the Wingham Wildlife Park Animal Welfare charity fundraising team finished the last of a series of 3 different obstacle runs for the summer period. All of them were 5 km races and all had a common feature – obstacles! But these obstacles varied from event to event, with the first 2 being…
WINGHAM WILDLIFE PARK JOINS THE THRIVING TOGETHER CAMPAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT YET IGNORED ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION The Thriving Together campaign recognizes that family planning is critically important not only for women and girls but also for the environment Today, Wingham Wildlife Park joins over 150 other leading environmental and reproductive health organizations to…
As many of you know on 1st July 2017 Kikay the female cheetah at Wingham Wildlife Park gave birth to 3 beautiful cubs – 1 girl and 2 boys. Kikay was an exceptional mum, raising all 3 cubs with no issues what so ever, however sadly (through no fault of her own), the female cub, Willow,…
There are plenty of ways in which you are able to recycle a mobile phone, whether it be sorting it properly when taking it to your local recycling centre, sending it off to a recycling company or bringing it to us at Wingham Wildlife Park where we are able to exchange old mobile phones for…
It is now one more week until I will be embarking on my 100km sponsored walk, taking part in the Thames Path Challenge – in fact as I write this (11:00am), by this time next week I should be about coming to the end, or already making my way back home… That’s IF I can…
