in 2006 Benjamin Mee and his family came across Dartmoor Wildlife Park, known locally as Sparkwell Wildlife Park, a privately owned, dilapidated exotic animal collection with a poor reputation and in terrible financial difficulty. As Benjamin explains, the family gathered all their resources, bought the zoo, saved the animals, and then began the year-long struggle to get the zoo ready to re-open which it finally did in July 2007 with new ideology, and under the new name of Dartmoor Zoological Park. The story was subsequently told in his book “We Bought A Zoo”, which was also released as a Hollywood movie of the same title in 2011, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson
Monday, 15 July
Talk
Dartmoor Zoo
in 2006 Benjamin Mee and his family came across Dartmoor Wildlife Park, known locally as Sparkwell Wildlife Park, a privately owned, dilapidated exotic animal collection with a poor reputation and in terrible financial difficulty. As Benjamin explains, the family gathered all their resources, bought the zoo, saved the animals, and then began the year-long struggle to get the zoo ready to re-open which it finally did in July 2007 with new ideology, and under the new name of Dartmoor Zoological Park. The story was subsequently told in his book “We Bought A Zoo”, which was also released as a Hollywood movie of the same title in 2011, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson
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Monday, 15 JulyDoors open:
2:00pmEvent begins:
2:00pmEvent ends:
4:00pmMonday, 15 July
Talk
Dartmoor Zoo
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Event details
Date for event
Monday, 15 JulyDoors open:
2:00pmEvent begins:
2:00pmEvent ends:
4:00pm