Guess Who’s Back…..
We Still Need your Help Zoo to You LIVE Feeds We are ready for you! So, you’ve booked your ticket, you’ve booked your admission time, ...
9th June 2020
A note from the CEO, a close encounter with the cubz, James you are pawesome, some brave lynx boy’s and baby fever! As we entered our 13th week of closure, ...
2nd June 2020
30 Days Wild, World Parrot Day, World Otter Day, some tasty Brand Discounts in our Online Shop, a Pawesome Portrait, Lemur Babies Galore and Jack Takes off his Shoes and ...
25th May 2020
The Pitter Patter of Tiny Paws, Pawesome Joey Names, A Super-fast Go Fund Me and a Surprise LIVE Star! Hey everyone, preparations are well underway to enable to welcome you ...
Happy Birthday to Us - Today we are 3!
So, 3 whole years since the team from Cumbria Zoo Company sat in Barrow Town Hall for the day, demonstrating and ultimately proving, that we deserved our very ...
Sherbert - the Early Years
We Need your Help Zoo to You LIVE Feeds You met sherbert in this mornings live, here’s a little more about his earlier days where ...
COVID-19: Safari Zoo Closes Temporarily
We Need your Help Zoo to You LIVE Feeds Safari Zoo is temporarily closed to visitors. At this time we do not have a date ...
Sadly They Don’t All Make It
SADLY THEY DON’T ALL MAKE IT… It’s been a sad week at Safari Zoo this week. On Thursday we announced the sad passing of 23 year old Andean Bear, Snoopy. ...
Some sad news about Jaguar Remi
We are unfortunately sharing some sad news from the zoo this week. Visitors to the zoo will have noticed 4 year old Jaguar Remi had quite a lump on his ...
Kadi’s Birthday
Kadi's 7th Birthday This week we also wished a Big Happy 7th Birthday to our resident Snow Leopard lady Kadi! Kadi was born in Helsinki Zoo in 2012, joining Safari ...
Otter Day, Penguin Chicks and Brown Lemur Babies
Hello lovey people and welcome to this week’s “otterly fabulous” news instalment from the zoo. Last week we celebrated World Otter Day. W.O.D. is an annual celebration of all things ...
Chips For Lemurs
Hi there lovely people and welcome back to another edition of news from the zoo….this week it’s chips for lemurs! This week we are with our veterinary and lemur keeper ...
Wroclaw and World Oceans Day
This week, members of our management team travelled to Wroclaw in Poland to attend the BIAZA Zoo Design Conference and visit Wroclaw Zoo. Subjects were interesting including how to design ...
Animal Enrichment and Happy Bee Day
Hello and happy world bee day for yesterday! Over the past 10 years US and European bee keepers have been reported annual losses of at least 30%. In the UK ...
Safari Zoo 2 Years On, and Arthur’s Army
9th May marked the 2 year anniversary of Cumbria Zoo Company being awarded our very own license to operate a zoo at the site of Safari Zoo. On that day ...
Conservation and the Circle of Life
Sad News of Shikar's Passing We start off on a somber note this week with the loss of beautiful 18 year old King of the Jungle, Shikar, on Monday 29th ...
Looking After Lemurs
Hello lovely people and welcome back to another week and another update from the team here at Safari Zoo! This week our focus is on Prosimians and, more precisely, the ...
Cupcake: A Heartwarming Tale
A heartwarming tale for this weeks instalment - All about cupcake...Cupcake’s story begins on September 15th 2018. Weighing in at a very tiny 400g, cupcake was found at her mums ...
Tending to Tigers and Wildebeest Harry
Here at Safari Zoo, Animal Keepers Gavin and Michael along with Amy who has recently joined the team, look after resident Cats and Carnivores including 4 year old Sumatran Tiger ...
Sponsoring a Red Panda Forest Guardian
International Red Panda Day 2018 – Saturday 15th, Sunday 16th September 2018 As few as 2,500 Red Pandas remain in the wild today, ...
Arthur’s Army
In the early hours of Sunday 20th May a gunshot was heard in the Skukuza section of the Kruger National Park, leading to the discovery of an injured White ...
New Arrival!!
🦓🍼 New Arrival 🍼🦓 We had been watching in excited anticipation and a lovely surprise was awaiting our Africa keepers on Wednesday morning! A tiny Grants Zebra foal was ...
World Honey Bee Day
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, ...
International Tiger Day 2018
Good morning followers and happy International Tiger Day to you all! International Tiger Day is celebrated annually to raise awareness of the plight of the tiger and support conservation ...
A home fit for furness’ finest….bugs!
We are bee-side our selves with excitement at the attention our endangered buzzy friends are getting today in honour of Don’t Step on a Bee Day. We at Safari ...
Tibor’s Target Training
Our veterinary team and keepers have noticed that our favourite big guy Tibor has sadly been a little out of sorts lately. Our care teams know Tibor ...
Dad’s Visit Free this Father’s Day Weekend!
Our Dad's are just paw-some aren't they! We are bigging up all Dad's this Father's Day Weekend (16th and 17th June 2018) and offering free entry to all dads ...
Tortoise Balmoral!
Our shelled buddies moved into their new summer residence today - Tortoise Balmoral we like to call it! Among the residents enjoying the move were our Hermann’s Tortoise. These ...
Welcome to the World l’il ones!
Keepers were uber-excited this morning to discover the most recent hatchlings in our World Wide Safari: Coscoroba Swan Cygnets! The Coscoroba Swan happens to be the smallest species of ...
It’s party time, yay, it’s party time……..
On the 24th February we were joined by the gorgeous sunshine for train-mad James’ 4th birthday party. We met all James' friends at 11am, excited and ready to party. ...
Good Morning, and Happy Earth Day!
Every year, six million tons of single-use plastics get thrown out, the majority of which ends up in our oceans, posing risk to the welfare marine life. An estimated ...
Happy Birthday Big Guy!
Resident Southern White Rhino Muzungu enjoyed a hay cake, complete with ice topper today in celebration of turning 21 years and even enjoyed being serenaded a rendition of Happy ...
STOP PRESS - 2 Roseate Spoonbill Chicks just spotted
Here a Chick, There a Chick, Everywhere a Chick Chick The excitement is almost too much for us in the Safari Zoo Offices today, we are on baby overload! ...
Joey-Fest at Safari Zoo
Red Kangaroos Fully grown, the Red Roo is the largest of all the Kangaroos. At birth the Jelly-Bean-Sized Joeys begin the epic journey to their Momma's pouch where they ...
Zoo-Noo-Born-z
Always an exciting time welcoming the first births of the season at safari zoo We excitedly welcomed Ring Tail Lemur babies earlier this week with Mum Pixie giving birth ...
Come “Hang” with Stanley at Safari Zoo
We have some really, really exciting news…Stanley, everyone’s favourite (yes, we are a little biased!) resident Two-Toed Sloth, is now receiving his very own visitors! ...
Our unfolding story - 52 weeks in
52 weeks after Cumbria Zoo Company Ltd took full control of the zoo, we look back at the 52 positive changes we've made and look forward to the year ahead. ...