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New

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DISCOVER animals from across the globe at Lotherton Wildlife World.
The penguins and tapirs have been joined by some new friends, the
warty pigs. Explore the newly opened areas of Wildlife World this February
half-term.
Lotherton Wildlife World tells conservation stories from around the world,
while drawing on the travels of previous owners of the Lotherton estate, the
Gascoignes. The penguins and exotic-looking flamingos are native to Chile,
while bashful tapirs originate from Brazil.
Learn about endangered animals, plant species and conservation
initiatives as part of European breeding programmes.
Journey through continents to discover wildlife native to countries the
Gascoigne family visited on their travels.
Meet the animals with special feeding experiences and meet the Keeper
sessions.
Get to know the animals, how they live and what we can do to protect
their future.
More info: leeds.gov.uk/wildlifeworld

First young ambassador

for Tropical World

Over the last month there has been a hunt to find the perfect

young person to represent Tropical World for the next 12
months

THERE was had a huge response to the about the animals, which made the
competition, with well over 200 amazing decision to choose a winner even more
responses from mums, dads, granny’s, difficult!
grandads, other family members and After a lot of thought and deliberation
friends nominating who they thought could 11 year old Thomas was chosen. Thomas
be the very first young ambassador. was fantastic with all the animals, and had
It was a hard process shortlisting the a huge amount of knowledge about them,
finalists from the fantastic entries, but and wasn’t shy about getting stuck in. He
it was eventually whittled down to four was picking up cockroaches, handling the
finalists – Maeve, Fin, Taylor and Thomas. butterflies, frogs and spiders as well as
All the finalists have been to Tropical feeding the meerkats!
World and met the head keeper, held and Look out for Thomas over the next 12
fed a number of the wonderful creatures months as he gets involved in all aspects
as you can see in the pictures. They were of Tropical World life!
all fantastic, and were very knowledgeable More info: tropicalworldleeds.co.uk

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