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“We don’t mind zoos when they do the right thing. Dignity and freedom are key…”
We wouldn’t know a thing about “Ireland‘s Wildest Attraction,” Fota Wildlife Park if it weren’t for Olivia O’Brien’s blog featured this week on WordPress’ Freshly Pressed. Ms. O’Brien’s photographs were so lovely that we had to research the source of her inspiration. Fota Wildlife Park is home to some seventy species of animals from around the world and a top ten visitor attraction in Ireland, not that we’d know. It’s on their website. It looks like a definite go-to place should you find yourself in Ireland around Cork.
Fota Wildlife Park was opened in 1983. Located in the south of Ireland, in County Cork, the park is set on 75 acres (300,000 m2), and is home to nearly 30 mammal and 50 bird species. Many of the animals roam freely with the visitors, such as the ring-tailed lemurs and squirrel monkeys. The larger animals, including the giraffe and bison, live in spacious paddocks with unobtrusive barriers. This allows visitors to enjoy an up close and personal experience with the animals.
Fota Wildlife Park aims to be a leading contributor to the conservation of wildlife through conservation education, the breeding of endangered species and the promotion of conservation worldwide. MORE [Wikipedia]
Free Ranging Ring Tailed Lemur courtesy of Talks Presenters 09 (talk) licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
Photograph and conservation status via Wikipedia.
Thanks so much for this! I can highly recommend Fota as a place to visit!
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I don’t ordinarily care for zoos but this one seems much more hospitable for the animals–right Gypsy? xoxo
I’m going to go tell Sita that her tail looks like a lemurs–she has rings like that around hers. I wonder how she’ll take that…
Cat come in diverse beauty. Love to Sita.
Gypsy
Hear, hear, Gypsy! Dignity and freedom – surely that’s not too much for any one of us to ask?