Wild Place Project

Wild Place Project is a wildlife conservation park in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. It is run by the Bristol Zoological Society and is the sister site of Bristol Zoo.It is located on the northern outskirts of Bristol, close to Junction 17 of the M5, opposite Cribbs Causeway.HistoryWild Place Project is located on Hollywood Estate, a grade II listed estate. The estate was gifted to Bristol Zoological Society in the mid 1960's by the White family. From the 1960's to 2013 the site was used as an off show area for breeding and quarantine. The site also housed the societies nurseries and to this day grows a third of the food for the animals at both Bristol Zoo and Wild Place Project.In 2008 Bristol Zoological Society announced plans to submit plans to South Gloucestershire Council for the development of a new 55-hectare park.The park officially opened on 22 July 2013. The original submitted plans suggested a development cost of circa £70 million.The Park has been designed to link specific ecosystems and conservation programmes across the world, and was originally intended to be split into biomes, representing species found only in specific habitats. Current areas include: Secret Congo, British Ancient woodland, Edge of Africa and Madagascar.The species list currently includes okapi, red river hog, Sudan cheetah, zebra, common eland, grey wolf, gelada baboon, Kirk's dik-dik and giraffe.