Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park

Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park

Entrance in 2014
Date opened 1974 (1974)
Location Birmingham, England
Coordinates 52°27′02″N 1°54′38″W / 52.450498°N 1.910430°W / 52.450498; -1.910430Coordinates: 52°27′02″N 1°54′38″W / 52.450498°N 1.910430°W / 52.450498; -1.910430
Annual visitors 1,450
Memberships EAZA[1]
Website www.birmingham.gov.uk/naturecentre

Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park (formerly Birmingham Nature Centre, and before that Birmingham Zoo) is a small zoo on the edge of Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, England. It is managed by Birmingham City Council.

Animals

The zoo features mainly small mammals. Its occupants include:

Red pandas

A red panda at the centre

The nature centre used to have a pair of male red pandas. However these have been re-housed as part of the national breeding program. Ming Ming is visiting a female red panda in the Welsh Mountain Zoo.

Babu

Babu is a red panda who disappeared from the nature centre in November 2005 and spent four days "on the loose" before being discovered. Nature centre staff believe he was blown out of a tree and found himself outside his enclosure. His disappearance and the city-wide panda hunt that ensued made national headlines. After being discovered by a dog-walker in Moseley, Babu was dramatically reunited with his brother Tensing live on Midlands Today.[2][3][4][5]

Notes

  1. "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. EAZA. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. "Runaway Birmingham panda found up tree". telegraph.co.uk. The Telegraph (UK). 3 November 2005. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  3. Kelbie, Paul (4 Nov 2005). "The end of freedom for Babu the escape artist". findarticles.com. The Independent (London). Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  4. "Red panda boosts visitor numbers". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 24 January 2006. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  5. Bounds, Jon (10 September 2007). "Brummie of the Year 2005". birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk. BiNS. Retrieved 18 September 2011.

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