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Yorkshire Wildlife Park Animal Audit

22 February 2025

Dedicated rangers needed patience, invention and tasty treats to get the measure of all creatures great and small at Yorkshire Wildlife Park’s annual audit.

Each of the hundreds of  animals, from tiny meerkats to Eastern Black Rhinos and Giraffes, has to be counted and have their vital statistics recorded as part of a national monitoring and conservation programme.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park is celebrating the birth of another set of rare twin Cotton Top Tamarin Monkeys

19 February 2025

The distinctive, white-crested monkeys were born to mum Consuela and dad Maurice last month kicking the year off with another conservation triumph.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park has been praised for its Cheetah conservation work

19 February 2025

The birth at YWP of Kendi and Tafari, the only two surviving cheetah cubs born in Europe in 2024, sparked huge interest in the species.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park Residents Stop to Smell the Roses for Valentine’s Day

13 February 2025

Rangers marked the year’s most romantic day by showing some extra love to their animals with a thoughtful selection of gifts!

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Rocco's First Birthday

16 January 2025

Yorkshire Wildlife Park is celebrating the first birthday of critically endangered black rhino Rocco, one of the rarest mammals on the planet.

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Year in Pictures 2024

30 December 2024

Join us a we celebrate 2024 in the wildest way and reflect back on the year!

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