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Green light for Bristol Zoo Project’s African forest habitat by FCBStudios


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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and landscape architects Grant Associates, working with conservation and education charity Bristol Zoological Society, have secured planning approval for the Central African Forest habitat at its Bristol Zoo Project site, home to some of the world’s most critically endangered species. Located near Junction 17 of the M5, work on the Bristol Zoo Project is planned to begin this spring. The architects have designed the buildings to blend seamlessly into the landscape and provide “rich educational spaces” for visitors. The development is a major step forward in the Society’s plan to create a “cutting- edge conservation zoo,” where at least 80% of species will be “connected to its conservation work in the UK and around the world.” The zoo will see lowland gorillas and mangabeys living together for the fi rst time in a UK zoo, in an area four and a half times the size of the gorilla troop’s current home at the former Bristol Zoo Gardens. Central African Forest will make the most of the wooded area of the zoo’s 136-acre site in South Gloucestershire. It has been


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designed to evoke a sense of the dense forest and landscape of Equatorial Guinea, where the Society runs one of its largest conservation projects on gorillas and other threatened forest species.


The new habitat will have integrated learning spaces, enabling students and visitors to see animals in a natural and immersive landscape, thereby “connecting people to threatened wildlife and animals.”


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