What’s the latest thinking on Safari Parks? A beautiful sunny Winter’s day, lots of entertaining animals (and a diverting attempt to eat our car by the giraffes) made for a very happy half term day out yesterday but there is something surreal about an artificial traffic jam in a fenced enclosure – engines all running, windows sealed (apart from the crazy people in the Cavalier hanging out the sunroof in the bear enclosure). Are these drive-through zoos an eco-anachronism or the future for captive nature?
In which I try, after 25 years of blogging, to drop my ironic stance a bit.