🔴 Your Zoo LIVE: Lions

good morning everyone and thank you for joining us for our first Facebook live as har for chisu I'm going to be taking you behind the scenes and some of the projects we're doing at the moment and also giving you some insightful updates now I'm Tyler I'm one of the directors here at the zoo but I'm also one of the presenters on cbc's one Zoo 3 so if you haven't seen it check it out and you'll see all the amazing animals that we have here at the zoo now as you can see on the camera we've actually started to change some of the signage and branding around site from Paradise Wildlife Park to H for chisu now one of the most common questions I get asked is why are you changing from Paradise Wildlife Park to hot zoo in general now Paradise wildli Park obviously has a very rich history and it actually my nan and Granddad Peter and Grace Samson that founded the zoo actually 40 years ago this year on the 1st of April which some people laugh because obvious it's April Fool's Day so we're lucky it's still actually going because of that but anyway so the real reasons for the name change is because really Lally to Hartford sh we want to align ourselves more closely with the county and the community as a whole we want to work more closely with being more responsible sustainably uh providing more insights into education and we want to actually tell people more about Wildlife as a whole and the reason for the zoo well Zoo has a mixed connotation and we actually want to be explaining what good modern day zoos do in terms of welfare for the animals sustainability research and obviously conservation don't forget as you can see just some more branding taking place there now follow me as we go this way as we're walking over Jags you got any questions from anyone listening uh how long are you closed for so we are currently closed and reopen on February the 10th ready for half-term period so all the exciting changes will or most of the exciting changes will be ready by then uh there'll be some projects still going on at the time but our members if you're a member we're actually looking to open maybe a couple days early so you can have exclusive access now just coming through the first era hello jents good morning they're currently working on revamping our Zoo shop as you can see in here there's loads of work taking place we're actually open it all up and we're going to have some new exclusive merchandise all branded up in the new logos um but we're actually going to be taking you through we're going to be giving you personalized items but also new branded merch in terms of the hoodies uh even Cameron my little brother also presting one Zoo free he takes some incredible Wildlife photos of the animals here at the zoo and around the world and some of his photos will be available in the store too so as you can see the team is busy working really hard obviously this is just one of the projects we' got Stephan jod just under here fixing up the tunnel ready for some more of those magic photo moments with the family now come around this way as we go onto the animal park now which animal does everyone want to meet what are some of the requests coming through take us to the Lions take it to the Lions yes of course you got to meet the king of paradise or king of heartfish here now which is Moto the lion so follow me through here now those these guys are obviously developing the shop but we also so Jags just take a closer look of just some of the hard work going on so this is some exclusive behind the scenes work that's taking place so thank you for tuning in and joining us this morning C and uh up on the screen hopefully our team back in the office is going to be be able to upload some cgis of the work that's actually taking place and what this shop is going to look like now if you turn back around as you can see here a world of animals once again at half zooo rather than parados wild left Park small details but you know it's going to be nice and impactful going forward now as I was trying to say some of the other projects we've got going on we've got our new Gibbon project which is s sound of the forest or song of the forest sorry my mistake song of the forest which obviously is emphasizing on that incredible vocal sound that the Gibbons make and if you've been here before you know what it's like and you'll hear Ethan from all around the zoo we also have a new native species Trail really highlighting the incredible British species we have in this country and raising awareness of what work we can do to support them ah and there's obviously a lot more projects going on but I've got to stop there because we're here to see our Lions good morning say hello to everyone Jack's come right on in now for all those obviously missing the animals at home here's a bit of it here's just a quick look in to what is going on here obviously always relaxed with all this work going on always still relaxed and enjoying themselves here as you see very cold lots of Frosty down there but they're still getting on really well but any more questions at all before we finish up who's the line back to us that that is Zuri couldn't tell back to me are the Lions happy yes the lions are really happy um as you can see they're nice and settled really relaxed as always as and if you didn't know under here when we actually built the habitat we actually put some heated flooring in so in cold conditions like this obviously they're found in Africa we actually keep them nice and warm so that's why they'll spend lots of their time basking under here and that's where you can come of meet them up nice and close and personal tell us about one Zoo 3 so one Zoo 3 actually follows me and my two brothers who have actually grown up and live on site here at the zoo with all the animals uh it takes you through kind of the incredible obviously animal personalities we have here at the zoo but also down at the big cat sanctuary our second charity down in Kent and you also get to meet the teams that we have both across both sites as well as all of our different conservation Partners we visit around the world and support thanks to your help but any more questions all Jags otherwise we're going to finish there and leave everyone to have a magical weekend next week oh next week next week we actually have another live stream coming up and that is for our Gibbon Gibbon project oh you got to tune in for that one because that project is coming along really well and it's looking incredible to be honest with you everyone's going to be amazed when they see it all finished up and obviously Ethan is going to be flying around his new habitat very soon but thanks for tuning in and uh hopefully we'll see you next time bye-bye