Knowsley Safari Park General Research
Knowsley Safari park is located in merseyside. They offer a 550 acre safari drive which is the longest in the UK, on the safari you go through particular sections where you see animals in as close to natural conditions as the safari park can achieve. Each section is different depending on the animals living there, which includes baboons, lions, rhinos and buffalos. They also offer an on foot safari where you can see animals such as meerkats and giraffes.
They are quite known for a lot of the conservation work that they do and they have the projects they are currently undertaking listed on their website. They have a lot ongoing at the moment to protect certain species. For example, they are trying to protect pond life, due to 50% of the UK's ponds being lost in the 20th century because of human development. So in 2016 they took a lot of work to renovate an overgrown pond on their site to create a diverse habitat for an array of species, where they also educate children on the importance of pond life. Other conservation projects include an agreement with the wild camel protection foundation to help conserve wild camels which are critically endangered, and with their work and research they may be able for future conservation action and be suitable for release back into the wild.
To help push this conservation further they offer animal adoptions, which the money goes to supporting conservation across the world.
Sustainability
They also are committed to reducing their impact on the environment. They have completely stopped using single waste plastics from their hot food packaging, cutlery and drinks bottles, and they offer biodegradable packaging for people wanting to take any food away. They provide fresh home cooked food in their restaurants and they offer a variety of refreshments but with no plastic bottles. Which is great and something I am particularly passionate about and I feel other food establishments and shops should follow. They go out of their way to ensure they have as small a carbon footprint as possible by doing things such as:
- Installing water reduction bags in our toilet cisterns has saved 1 litre of water per toilet, per flush.
- Waste that can’t be recycled goes to waste for energy. Every tonne of waste produces enough electricity to power an average U.K. home for 2 months.
- Each year, by taking the Baboon Bus (rather than driving round the safari individually), our guests saved 3.21 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere.
They push this sustainability even further by:
- Raising awareness of the issue amongst their guests
- Encouraging guests to take action on these issues at home
- Finding ways to be more energy efficient
- Improving the ways that they use water
- Aiming for zero waste to landfill
