Although we are trying to replicate Uganda and Kenya we are actually in Cheshire so the weather is slightly different,” admits Chester zoo boss, Jamie Christon, on a fresh and very grey Monday morning.
This is what they were building when I visited Chester for a long weekend last year. It's a breathtaking undertaking, huge in scope, and the zoo itself was already massive. Also absolutely the best zoo in the UK.
But ignore the chilliness and screw your eyes and you could well be transported to a sweeping African savannah where, one day, there will be giraffes, zebras, antelopes and ostriches roaming majestically side by side. Christon is speaking at the launch of the UK’s biggest ever such zoo development – a £28m facility called Heart of Africa. It covers just over 9 hectares (22.5 acres) and is home to 57 African species including vultures, rhinos, a colony of naked mole rats and 15,000 locusts.
Chester was a lovely town, but already beginning to show signs that the diversity is heading its way...
2 comments:
Bags me the job of locust counter.
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