It’s been a busy Summer at Project Elephant Base Camp as preparations are well underway to welcome a male elephant to Blackpool Zoo for the very first time in our 47-year history. Following years of […]
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Welcoming Tara to Project Elephant
It was a cold February morning, and keepers from Blackpool Zoo and Twycross Zoo were about to put their meticulous plans into action – The time had come for Tara to make her big move […]
Project Elephant – Our story so far
The story of Project Elephant begins many many years ago, when the idea for a brand new elephant house first came to our minds. For years we were kept busy with secret meetings; talking about […]
The elephants will come in two by two – from Twycross Zoo!
Blackpool Zoo is set to become home to a herd of Asian elephants from Twycross Zoo following the completion of its multi-million pound ‘Project Elephant’ development. Four females, who currently reside in the Leicestershire zoo, […]
We need your help with a MAMMOTH task
We’ve joined forces with Blackburn based EPSL Educational Printing to ask the nation’s school children to help with a mammoth task! The doors on our single, biggest investment in our 45-year history – a new home for […]