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- 11th August 2009
M-Cube To Donate Prepaid Card Fees Directly To Saving Western Lowland Gorillas
- 8th March 2009
New Cash Card Will Boost Endangered Gorillas
Rare Margay Twins are a First for Europe
Keepers at The Aspinall Foundation's Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent, are celebrating the birth of twin Margay kittens, which they believe is a first for Europe. The twins, as yet unsexed were discovered in their nesting box by Head of Small Cats, Neville Buck, when their mother Ququm left them to hunt for food in the enclosure. It is normal for a Margay to give birth to only one kitten. The birth of the twins is a real ...
New Moloch Gibbon swings in from Australia
Port Lympne are celebrating the arrival of a new Moloch Gibbon from Australia. The 12 year old female is called Regina and has travelled over 10 000 miles to her new home in KenThe Aspinall Foundation's Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks together hold half of the world's total captive population of Moloch gibbons and are the world's most successful breeder of this species. The critically endangered Moloch gibbon is ...
New birth to reintroduced Gorilla in the Aspinall Foundation's Pioneering Projects
The Aspinall Foundation is celebrating some good news that has just arrived from its gorilla projects in Africa. An infant has been born to Zora, a female wild born gorilla that was reintroduced to her natural home after having survived seeing all of her family being butchered for their meat. Zora and her group now live wild and free in the wilderness of Gabon. Zora's group was the first group to be reintroduced to Gabon in...
Baby Colobus Monkey Back With Mum After Shaky Start in Life
A young Colobus monkey is back with his mother and doing well after having to undergo emergency vet treatment early in his life. The male infant, named Sobek, was found by keepers at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Nr Ashford, collapsed on the floor of the enclosure. He was breathing irregularly and keepers feared for his life, so he was rushed to the on-site vet hospital where, as she explains, vet Jane Hopper had to act fas...
Emotional Gorilla Reunion is a Youtube Sensation
An emotional reunion between Damian Aspinall and a gorilla that was relocated from his birthplace in Kent to live free in the forests of Gabon, has become a youtube sensation.
Kwibi was born and brought up by Damian at Howletts Wild Animal Park, near Canterbury. When he was five years old he was transported to Gabon where he was taught to live wild and free in The Aspinall Foundation's protected reserve. Five years on...
Plant Conservation Day at Howletts and Port Lympne!
May 18th is Plant Conservation Day and The Aspinall Foundation is proud to be part of the international efforts to raise public awareness of the need to protect plants. The charity behind Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Park is best known for its work protecting endangered animals worldwide, but over 100,000 plants species are threatened with extinction today.
The Aspinall Foundation will be celebrating the impor...
Port Lympne's Scottish Wildcats get a different perspective with new walkways
Port Lympne's Scottish Wildcats have been given a chance to see the park from a different point of view with the construction of special raised walkways.
The raised walkways, enclosed in a mesh tunnel, extend from the cats' enclosures and travel around an area of the park before returning to the enclosure once more. The innovative system allows the cats to wander around a much larger territory. As well as allowin...
Tigers' put new Howlett's attraction to the military test!
To mark the opening of the new Treetops Challenge high ropes course at Howletts: The Aspinall Wild Animal Park, the army were invited in to put the course and themselves to the test!
The brand new attraction is a high wires adventure where participants have to negotiate their way between 15 raised elements high in the tree tops, including treacherous tyres, tightropes, wobbly logs and balancing beams with a 40mtr zip ...
Howletts say a sad farewell to Zcabbie the Tigress
Staff at Howletts Wild Animal Park are mourning the death of much loved elderly Indian
tigress, Zcabs. Zcabs, or 'Zcabbie' to her friends, had reached the tremendous age of 22
years old. Tigers in the wild are very lucky to live to around 13 or 14 years. Zcabbie died on
Tuesday 20th April from renal complications related to extreme old age. Renal failure is
thought to be the most common cause of death fo...
First Heck's Macaque Born in Britain
Keepers at The Aspinall Foundation's Howletts Wild Animal Park are hand-rearing the first Hecks Macaque ever to be born in Britain. Howletts also believe that this is the first birth for this species in Europe. The male infant, Nantu, is a first offspring for father Cimot and mother Ully at the Howletts park. As Nantu was born by Caesarean, Ully did not develop any of the proper maternal instincts, and keepers made the diff...
Jonathan the Giraffe finds new home at Port Lympne
The keepers at Port Lympne welcomed a new addition to the giraffe herd at The Aspinall Foundation's
Port Lympne Wild Animal Park on Saturday. Jonathan the giraffe is seven years old and will bring the
numbers of giraffe at the park up to 6. At fourteen feet tall, it was no easy task to transport him from his
old home at Banham Zoo in Norfolk, but all went well and Jonathon arrived just in time for lunch. He
A Glance at 2009
A Glance at 2009
Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks are well known within the UK and Europe for their high standards of
animal welfare and captive breeding success. 2009 was yet another successful year for new births across both parks,
and there were also several new additions to the collection. The parks have the largest collection of critically endangered
Western Lowland goril...
Christmas Day Arrival & Gibbon Tales
Christmas Day arrival
Port Lympne Wild Animal Park received a fantastic Christmas treat this year with the arrival of a baby
Eastern Black Rhinoceros. The keepers had been on 'birth watch' for the week preceding the birth as the dam 'Vuyu' had
been showing signs of an imminent birth for a number of days. This baby female brings the total number of rhino births at
the park to 27 and a ...
News on the Orphan Gorilla Nursery in the Congo....
Congo Blog
Tanga, the oldest and dominant gorilla who arrived in February 2006. Before being rescued she had been living with humans for quite a long time, and is very accustomed to them. Even though she weighs 44kgs and has all her teeth she still very much enjoys climbing onto the knees, or into the arms of her carers for comfort. Although she can cause trouble among the group, she is d...
