Heart of Africa Ecosystem
Reviewed: 28th January 2009
Chester Zoo unveiled an ambitious plan that will see it transformed into the largest conservation, animal and leisure attraction of its kind in Europe.
The project – given the working title Natural Vision – will involve a £90 million first phase which will include the only domed ecosystem in the UK.
Called ‘Heart of Africa’, the bio-dome will be an African rainforest-themed sanctuary for a band of Gorillas, a large troop of chimpanzees, Okapi (rare giraffe-like creatures), and a wide variety of tropical birds, amphibians, reptiles, fishes and invertebrates, moving freely among lush vegetation.
The first phase will also include a 90-bed hotel, a Conservation College and a ‘Futures’ education centre. The rest of the Natural Vision project will be completed by 2018, thus creating one of the largest wildlife attractions in the world and support the zoo’s national and international conservation work, which already spans 50 countries.
Stockist: Chester Zoo
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