Hamerton Zoo Park

Hamerton Zoological Park has been playing a vital role in animal conservation since 1990 and still continue to do so to this day.

With our ever increasing collection of rare and endangered animals and birds, we feature nearly 100 different species.

Conservation Stories

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  Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia

  22/07/2015

  The Cheetah Conservation Fund is the primary conservation body involved in helping to save the most enigmatic of wild cats in Namibia, its last remaining stonghold in Africa, where a third of the surviving Cheetahs live. A major part of their work i... [more]

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  Giant Anteater Survey in Brazil

  01/01/2015

  Giant Anteater radio-tracking in the Brazillian Pantanal. With its stange appearance this animal is a charasmatic large mammal species from this area of Brazil. It is an important flag-ship species for the local ecosystems, which include light fores... [more]

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  Donkey rescue from the brink of Extinction

  03/09/2014

  The rescue story of a donkey would be expected to be a heart renching tale of miss-treatment of some unfortunate beast of burden or seaside performer, especially in Britain where the donkey is also often seen as something of a joke. In many other pa... [more]

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  Renwewable Energy

  27/11/2012

  Our two new wind turbines were erected during the second half of November 2012. They are Endurance E3120 machines made in Canada and mounted on 36m mono-pole towers. In the wind speeds at the Park proved by the two original Gaia turbines, the new o... [more]

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  Conserving Natural Resources

  17/01/2011

  The rolling countryside of this part of west Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), indeed is often referred to as the 'Huntingdonshire Wolds'. It is an agricultural landscape, formed by a patchwork of lightly wooded valleys and more open higher... [more]