Is Nirah displaying animals simply for profit?
We are not establishing Nirah purely for the entertainment of the fee-paying public. Nirah aims to help prevent species and habitats from slipping into extinction by playing a vital role in public education and supporting conservation initiatives. Apart from those animals needing special facilities, Nirah will display all of its animals as openly as possible. Tours showing visitors ‘behind the scenes’ and quarantine areas will allow them to see newly arrived animals and specialist breeding habitats. To be truly effective for public and scientific education, researchers must be able to study actual living organisms. Sadly some species have no habitat left in the wild; they need the provision of a safe, secure and stimulating home just to survive. As a caring & responsible species, we cannot leave critically endangered species (some below their breeding population threshold requirements) to their own devices and hope that they survive. So we aim to support a range of captive breeding pro
