00:00Noah's Ark Sioux Farm is celebrating its 25th year anniversary with an exciting new development.
00:07Let's step inside to find out about the new project.
00:11We're so excited because we've now started this project you can see behind me.
00:16It's the first big project we've launched since we became a charity last year.
00:21And this is going to be a carnivores project.
00:24The first phase is to create a new space for our lions.
00:27And then we're going to have another space for tigers.
00:30And then the future phases beyond that are going to be arctic foxes and vultures.
00:34They're going to be really exciting spaces.
00:36They're designed for the lions and the tigers to have some great features and enrichments.
00:43So they're designed with the welfare of the lions and the tigers paramount.
00:48And there's also going to be some amazing visitor experiences.
00:51We're going to have a viewing structure right where I'm standing with full length glass.
00:56Two meters high and you can come face to face with a lion and see this amazing landscape behind me.
01:03And we're also going to have some great interactive features.
01:07There's going to be interactive learning.
01:10There's going to be boulders to climb on.
01:12There's going to be balance beams.
01:14And it all mirrors the habitat you can see for the big cats we're creating.
01:18We're going to have similar habitats for people to experience as well.
01:21So they can feel what it's like to be a carnivore.
01:26Can you tell us a bit about how the lion's area has been transformed for the lion's welfare?
01:34Yeah, so the new habitat is being designed completely with them in mind.
01:39We've picked out the best parts of their previous slash current enclosure.
01:44We're enhancing them to make it better, offer better enrichment opportunities.
01:51And just with them completely in mind.
01:54So for example, one of our male lions, Tao, he absolutely loves being in high places.
02:00So he can see everything, see across the zoo.
02:03So as you can see behind, there is the really impressive mound we've got with the cave.
02:08He'll be able to sit right up there and see everything that's going on.
02:11Yeah, so we've got lots of strategic goals that we want to achieve as a charity.
02:16And those are around conservation, about inspiring people with nature.
02:22So the species that we are looking at, we are trying to fulfill those goals really.
02:27So we've got conservation goals that we want to do, particularly with vultures and with tigers.
02:32We want to create some really fantastic animal welfare demonstrations here.
02:36So we want to showcase what can be done and how well animals can be looked after.
02:41So things that we've got expertise in already and some new species as well.
02:46We've never kept a dog species at Noah's Ark before.
02:48So we're looking forward to bringing in the Arctic foxes.
02:50They're going to be really good for our sensory-led interpretation and providing people with,
02:57because they're so active, they're going to be a really interesting animal to have in the collection.
03:02And hopefully create lots of moments that people are going to be inspired by.
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