Well it’s about the animals really – over 1,000 of the rarest, most endangered animals in unique natural environments which enable the visitor to get as close as physically possible to experience the sights, sounds, and a few smells, of these amazing creatures we share our planet with.

.. And the experience..A natural park with free roaming animals, where over 300,000 annual visitors wander amongst kangaroos, wallabies, emus; are amazed as free flying macaws soar overhead; walk in, and interact, with free roaming lemurs, squirrel monkeys, cotton topped tamarins; bravely venture in where condors and vultures fly free; watch Big cats including tigers, lions, jaguars hunt for their lunch; hand feed giraffes, penguins, lemurs every day .

..Then it’s about conservation -With 2 international conservation charities, The Wildlife Protection Foundation and The Sumatran Tiger Trust , working to save species, communities and habitats all over the world, from building water wells for villages in Africa, funding anti poaching patrols in Sumatra, rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing bears, condors, vultures, penguins, primates back to the wild in Colombia, Peru and South America we are probably the best conservation park in the UK and Don’t just talk about Conservation we get out there and do it!

South Lakes Wild Animal Park is a private zoo created, designed, owned and developed by David Gill. Read more in this message from David.