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As Stanley Park Aerodrome, it operated from September as an RAF parachute training centre, with an air traffic control tower which was later used to house offices and a classroom and a hangar subsequently used as the elephant house and food store. Four more hangars were added in the war years and Wellington bombers were constructed there, then test-flown.
Then, in , the Royal Lancashire Show took over and ran an annual show until, in , plans for a zoological gardens were proposed and discussions held with Southport Zoo. Seven years later, the Blackpool Tower Zoo closed and the Council drew plans for a new zoo. It was one of two Asian elephants at the family attraction, accompanied by three white rhinos, two giraffes, sea-lions, gorillas, chimpanzees, orang-utans, lions and a pair of giant tortoises.
Since then, the collection has grown to over animals from all over the world, making for a varied family day. The animals are housed in special habitats and enclosures, allowing a fun family day out in any weather, with popular attractions including marmosets, tamarins, monkeys, red titi, saki, colobus, Amur tigers, porcupine, capybara, agouti, meerkat, aardvark, tapir, camels, llama, vicugna, muntjac, gazelle, zebu, bongo, sitatunga, cuscus, potoroo, curassow, caiman, numerous invertebrates, and scores of bird and reptile species, notably snakes and lizards.
With wheelchair-friendly access and many enclosures with low level viewing windows, Blackpool Zoo offers a memorable fun family day out, as well as offering educational visits including animal handling, pet-care and Keeper For A Day or corporate events such as team-building exercises, product launch days and competitions. There are disabled toilets situated round the site, free, bookable wheelchairs, and a private medical room, while pre-booked Talking Tours are available for visitors with visual impairment and signing for the deaf, meaning every need is catered for on a fun family say out to Blackpool Zoo.
With the need to balance being a successful business whilst maintaining our key aims and objectives as a modern day zoo, being part of such a big organisation as Parques Reunidos gives us the umbrella network to pool resources and experience from within the group to the benefit of the zoo, its animals, staff and visitors alike.
Whilst this does not limit us to participating in annual campaigns, such as the ones organised by EAZA European association of Zoos and Aquaria where we are always active supporters in generating funds and awareness, we are committed long term to the projects that have an integral part to play in our conservation message that we promote to our visitors on a daily basis.
Various projects that we promote around the zoo through our many educational talks and displays, whilst generating support financially for include:. We support the schools awareness programmes that are run by this organisation with the aim of raising awareness amongst the locals to try and limit the tension with issues surrounding the problem of Human v Elephant conflict in many regions of Sri Lanka.
We are one of the major supporters of this project through our parent organisation conservation arm — the Parques Reunidos Foundation. The work of this organisation is critical in supporting one of the worlds most endangered marine mammals found only around the coast line of Mauritania. Again a major contributor to this South American conservation project whose aim is to protect and survey the regions of Peru where the endangered San martin Titi monkey is found one of the worlds most endangered Primates.
A very long association with this charity that works to save the critically endangered Tiger species and their habitats. Blackpool Zoo is very proud to be one of the top 6 fundraising institutions for this charity. Inspire them! From that first experience of such an incredible animal I had a fascination with wildlife and would encounter it at every opportunity I had! I believe that a modern day zoo has a far greater ability to inspire than zoos of the past or museums and if we can provide an enjoyable, interesting and educational visit for our visitors then we have the opportunity to leave lasting memories with young and old alike.
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