Newquay Zoo Paw Prints Newsletter April 2000

 

An important and controversial topic to address – Why have Zoos? 

Wendy Winstanley and our Busy Hedgehog / Wildlife Hospital still in the news 1997 and 2000

 

Penguin Club and Wildlife Hospital News 

 

Arrivals and Departures and Herb Gardens for Monkeys … we have pictures in our archive of these worth tracking down. 

Very shortly in September 2000 the first students would arrive for these courses at the Zoo – Lizzie our lioness 

Fota Wildlife Park Education Conference 1999

Fota Wildlife Park Pelicans 1999

Fota Wildlife Park 

 

Fota Wildlife Park Capybara group 1999 – a zoo with lakes and islands that reminds me lots of Newquay Zoo. 

 

 

Possibly the saddest page in the whole of our Zoo Newsletters … I shall have to track down a photo of Marc from amongst our thousands of photos. 

I remember Marc and his family well, he was a delightful and sometimes exhausting bundle of energy and curiosity! The day we heard that he had died in December 1999  was one of the saddest days I remember at the Zoo.  Mike Thomas also talked about Marc on his Wild Planet Trust YouTube interview and at his 50th Anniversary talk on 26th May 2019

A quiet place at the entrance to the Oriental Gardens area where Marc’s ashes are scattered (taken 2019)  – his parents Anne and Dave  when they still lived in Cornwall used to decorate the middle tree at Christmas! 

When Mike Thomas retired in 2003 he continued work on the Marc’s Arc charity and eventually the remainder of these funds went to Little Harbour Children’s Hospice Southwest. Little Harbour families keep in touch with us at the Dreamnight evening event each year, bringing many of their  children with serious health conditions and their families to the zoo for one special night.

I’m sure Marc and his family would approve!

More news on the zoo in 2000 in our next Paw Prints newsletter reprinted with added colour photographs!

Blog posted by Mark Norris, Newquay Zoo Education using Newquay Zoo Archive images as part of our ongoing 50th Anniversary celebrations. 

You can still enjoy our popular free “Then and Now Trail” remains up of vintage Newquay Zoo images and a brief colourful history of Newquay Zoo on the Timeline by the Dragon Maze.