Here at Noah’s Ark we rely entirely on visitors for our income – ticket sales and income from the café and gift shop is what keeps us afloat.

So being closed to the public is hugely challenging for us as we still need to feed and care for our animals and even in lockdown we need a team of 20 dedicated keepers working hard to care for our animals seven days a week. This all costs a lot of money and we’ve already extended our borrowing to the absolute limit.

We are now at a stage where we need to ask for help so that we can continue to feed and care for the 120 species of amazing animals here at Noah’s Ark.

It costs us £8,000 each month to feed our animals and we are hoping we can raise this amount of money to help keep us going for the next month.

Each animal has different needs from Elephants, Rhinos and Giraffes to Gibbons, Giant Anteaters and Meerkats. These are animals with specialist diets and they need skilled care from trained animal keepers. We made a video to highlight the amount of food that we feed our animals at our zoo in one day.

Please do consider making a donation to help us to continue to feed and care for our animals. Thank you and stay safe,

Larry Bush MD, and the rest of Noah's Ark Zoo Farm