Askham Bryan Wildlife & Conservation Park

Askham Bryan Wildlife & Conservation Park Askham Bryan Wildlife and Conservation Park is open on weekends and school holidays
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Help support our native species by signing up to iNaturalist and taking part in BIAZA Spotted on Site at Askham Bryan. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/askham-bryan-wildlife-and-conservation-park

⚠️ ENRICHMENT ALERT ⚠️ Sharoo our royal python has been enjoying some time on our snake climbing frame! 🧗‍♂️This enrichm...
25/03/2025

⚠️ ENRICHMENT ALERT ⚠️

Sharoo our royal python has been enjoying some time on our snake climbing frame! 🧗‍♂️

This enrichment is great for all snakes as it helps keep their muscles healthy 💪!

The climbing frame was made by BITE with the help of a primary school!

Keep an eye out for a open reptile room to meet sharoo and the gang 🐍🦎

24/03/2025

Introducing Slim our resident regal tang!

He is a fan favourite (Keeper Sophie's fave) in the aquatics room, he is a complex fish who needs a lot of stimulation and activities to keep him busy and out of mischief!

He is currently starting a training plan, this involves many steps with the end goal being to better his welfare! Positive reinforcement is used through out, providing slim with his favourite treats such as razor clam 🍬.

He is currently getting used to feeding of tongs which he is smashing out the ocean 🌊

Keep an eye out for how he gets along 👀

23/03/2025

We ambushed our keepers by asking them their favourite toy out of our ShopOcelot 🌿

Some of our keepers are very quick and good at avoiding our questions 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Summer Seasonal roles are available at the Wildlife Park. Starting at the end of June and finishing at the end of August...
23/03/2025

Summer Seasonal roles are available at the Wildlife Park. Starting at the end of June and finishing at the end of August.

Have you got a passion for wildlife. Please apply here: Wildlife Education Officer https://g.co/kgs/BMyHQF8

🐈🐖🐏🦇🦘🐍🐟

23/03/2025

We ambushed our keepers by asking them their favourite toy out of our ShopOcelot 🌿

Our Spider Plushies got Keeper Lukes’s vote🦈

Have you spotted the first signs of spring across the Wildlife Park? 🌼There’s still a few hours left of the day to come ...
23/03/2025

Have you spotted the first signs of spring across the Wildlife Park? 🌼

There’s still a few hours left of the day to come see our Boreray lambs! 🐑🐏

Feeling like a snack when visiting ?? ☕️🥪Our Hive Cafe is open everyday the Wildlife Park is from 10am-3pm 👌🏻Don’t forge...
23/03/2025

Feeling like a snack when visiting ?? ☕️🥪

Our Hive Cafe is open everyday the Wildlife Park is from 10am-3pm 👌🏻

Don’t forget season ticket members get 10% off!!

Celebrating the rain with this rainforest frog 🐸This gorgeous blue dart frog can be found in our Wildlife of the world c...
23/03/2025

Celebrating the rain with this rainforest frog 🐸

This gorgeous blue dart frog can be found in our Wildlife of the world cooriddor and in our shop for only £6!

Remember season ticket holders get 10% off! 💙🩵

23/03/2025

With rain comes amphibians 🐸

This time of year is important to our native amphibians. Many of them are travelling to ponds for breeding.

This little frog got themselves stuck this morning and keeper Laura helped them back to the waterside. So much amazing Wildlife on our Wildlife and Conservation Park 🌿

🦋🐌🪲🐜🐛🦂🕷 Open Invertebrate room at 11 am today! Take a look behind the scenes and a sneak peak at our outstanding teachin...
23/03/2025

🦋🐌🪲🐜🐛🦂🕷

Open Invertebrate room at 11 am today! Take a look behind the scenes and a sneak peak at our outstanding teaching facilities ❤️

Rain? ☔️No bother! We have the most beautiful collection of trees in the Wildlife and Conservation Park, so there is cov...
23/03/2025

Rain? ☔️

No bother! We have the most beautiful collection of trees in the Wildlife and Conservation Park, so there is cover all around. We also have undercover picnic areas 🥪

Or grab yourself a brolly from ShopOceleot.

Remember If you are a season ticket holder you get 10% off in the shop 🦖🐒

It's a drizzly day, but there is still so much to see!What's on today?🦋 11am- open invertebrate room, go behind the scen...
23/03/2025

It's a drizzly day, but there is still so much to see!

What's on today?

🦋 11am- open invertebrate room, go behind the scenes, and see our amazing atlas moths.

🦉 12noon- listen to keeper Laura and the amazing world of owls at the training academy.

🦔- Native walk through, explore our brand new section Natives with keeper Olivia.

🦇- Nocturnals, come into the darkness and see the creatures that usually frequent the night.

🪲 challenge yourself to find all 79 of the Tansy beetles on the Tansy Beetle Trail

🦔 Join us in our craft room and make your own pinecone hedgehog.

🐖🐏 Heritage Conservation Farm

All this included in standard entry. Explore the beautiful 28 acre park with rare trees and over 100 species of animals 🦘🐖🐏🐍🐈

Open 10am till 4pm today!

💩🪲 Dung Beetles 🪲💩Did you know we have dung beetles in the UK? Our HE Education team has been preparing for Easter searc...
22/03/2025

💩🪲 Dung Beetles 🪲💩

Did you know we have dung beetles in the UK?

Our HE Education team has been preparing for Easter searching for dung beetles.

This Easter at the Wildlife Park, we will be celebrating all things farm at the Heritage Farm, which includes these amazing invertebrates. 🪲🪲🪲

🪲 Our new Tansy Beetle Trail is going down a storm today! This trail is for those who like a challenge. Find 79 beetles ...
22/03/2025

🪲 Our new Tansy Beetle Trail is going down a storm today!

This trail is for those who like a challenge. Find 79 beetles hidden around the Wildlife Park

ShopOcelot 🌿Our sustainable shop hosts a range of cuddly toys, many of which can be found in our Wildlife Park. Featurin...
22/03/2025

ShopOcelot 🌿

Our sustainable shop hosts a range of cuddly toys, many of which can be found in our Wildlife Park. Featuring the barn owl 🦉

Only £10.50 but don’t forget if you’re a season ticket member you get 10% off !!

Did you know this range are made from 100% recycled bottles ♻️

Some of our eagle eyed visitors might have noticed our meerkat mob has some news 🥰
22/03/2025

Some of our eagle eyed visitors might have noticed our meerkat mob has some news 🥰

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Askham Bryan Wildlife & Conservation Park, Askham Bryan College, Askham Bryan
York
YO233FR

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Many of you might have noticed our cave cockroaches during our open invert room last weekend 🪳! Here is our colony being a bit more active during feeding time! Their diet consist of a range of fruit, vegetables and soaked dogfood to provide them with key protein 💪 Keep an eye on our talk board so you don’t miss the next open invert room 🦋

Introducing Slim our resident regal tang! He is a fan favourite (Keeper Sophie's fave) in the aquatics room, he is a complex fish who needs a lot of stimulation and activities to keep him busy and out of mischief! He is currently starting a training plan, this involves many steps with the end goal being to better his welfare! Positive reinforcement is used through out, providing slim with his favourite treats such as razor clam 🍬. He is currently getting used to feeding of tongs which he is smashing out the ocean 🌊 Keep an eye out for how he gets along 👀

We ambushed our keepers by asking them their favourite toy out of our ShopOcelot 🌿 Some of our keepers are very quick and good at avoiding our questions 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

We ambushed our keepers by asking them their favourite toy out of our ShopOcelot 🌿 Our Spider Plushies got Keeper Lukes’s vote🦈

With rain comes amphibians 🐸 This time of year is important to our native amphibians. Many of them are travelling to ponds for breeding. This little frog got themselves stuck this morning and keeper Laura helped them back to the waterside. So much amazing Wildlife on our Wildlife and Conservation Park 🌿

Just one of our new Scottish Wildcats ‘Mog’ coming and introducing herself to all our followers 👋 We’re open tomorrow from 10am if you want to pop in and say hello 🐱

We ambushed our keepers by asking them their favourite toy out of our ShopOcelot 🌿 Our Shark Plushies got Keeper Sophie’s vote🦈

What do you like to scratch your backside on?? 🐷 Our saddleback piglets choice is the enclosure fence!! 😂

Life on the Heritage Conservation Farm- Snoozing in the sun 🐖🐖🐖🐖

🪼 New Species Alert 🪼 40 Moon Jellyfish have joined us in our aquatics room! Did you know moon jellyfish can be found on the coast of the UK. These little jellyfish are not on the main exhibit yet. However, look out for open aquatics rooms on our talks board 🐟🐠🦀

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Learning to Protect Nature

Askham Bryan Wildlife & Conservation Park is based at Askham Bryan College, York. The park is part of the college Animal Management Unit - it’s there to support students to become the next generation of conservationists, zookeepers and animal welfare specialists of the future. The park is open to the public weekends and holidays, when staff and students share their love of nature with our visitors.