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Dartmoor Zoo
Benjamin Mee
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

Event details

Date for event
Monday, 15 July
Doors open:
2:00pm
Event begins:
2:00pm
Event ends:
4:00pm
Erme Court, Leonards Road, Ivybridge, PL21 0SZ
Box Office
01752 892220
Dartmoor Zoo

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Benjamin Mee
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

Event details

Date for event
Monday, 15 July
Doors open:
2:00pm
Event begins:
2:00pm
Event ends:
4:00pm