Wildwood Trust: Lockdown diaries videos from wildlife park

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Cuteness alert: Lockdown diaries from wildlife park

While the world is in lockdown, the animals at the Kent wildlife park 'Wildwood Trust' still need love and care. Now keepers are making sure that supporters won't forget them, by posting daily videos and animals talks from the park on social media.

With more than 40 species and over 120 animals to care for, there is no time to rest at Wildwood Trust, despite Covid-19 lockdown.
Keepers work in special rotas, ensuring the most limited amount of human contact, all the while trying to cover the same work amount, with less people on site at the time.

While some animals don't much notice the difference, others actually really miss the daily interaction with visitors at Wildwood and keepers are making sure to give them that extra attention. A vet is also checking on animals regularly.

Watch and download raw videos from the park here

''With the videos from the park we hope to both show people, that we continue to take very good care of our animals and that we are still here, but also to highlight the pressure that we are under, if we can't secure funds to cover the essential daily work''
Said Paul Whitfield, Director General at Wildwood Trust.

Just keeping animals fed, healthy and happy costs about £11,000 a week.
The park relies heavily on a membership scheme, but also on single donations.

Donate to the park's appeal

Wildwood officially went into lockdown closure on March 23, without knowing when they will be open again. It's the first time the park has had to shut like this, since opening in 2002.

The wildlife park is also asking people to donate for an amazon wishlist for the animals.

The videos also appear on Wildwood Trust's Youtube Page

Feel free to grab video from our social media

Contact:

Wildwood Trust: +44(0)1227 712 111

Julie Luna Bayer: julie@wildwoodtrust.org or 01227 209618 or 07453 497086

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewildwoodtrust

Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thewildwoodtrust

ABOUT WILDWOOD

Wildwood Trust opened in 1999 as a centre of excellence for the conservation of British wildlife, and was established as a registered charity in 2002. Wildwood is Kent's best British wildlife park.

Home to over 200 native animals, past and present and set in 40 acres of beautiful ancient woodland where visitors can see bears, wolves, bison, deer, owls, foxes, red squirrels, wild boar, lynx, wild horses, badgers and beavers plus many more. As one of the leading British animal conservation charities in the UK, Wildwood Trust is dedicated to saving Britain's most threatened wildlife.

Wildwood Trust have taken part in many ground-breaking conservation programmes to date, which include, saving the water vole, using wild horses to help restore Kent's most precious nature reserves, bringing the extinct European beaver back to Britain and returning the hazel dormouse & red squirrel to areas where they have been made extinct.