Overview

Manor Wildlife Park, located in Wales, is a unique and exceptional wildlife park that allows visitors to walk alongside lemurs, tigers, and wallabies. The park’s primary goal is to protect and preserve the ecosystems of endangered species. They have introduced ex-situ animals to a natural Pembrokeshire landscape. The park has created single and multi-species enclosures that have minimal visible boundaries, giving visitors the impression of free-roaming while ensuring the safety of both human and non-human animals.

In 2008, Colin MacDougall and Anna Ryder Richardson took over the park. Since then, they have implemented significant conservation-led changes to transform Manor Park from a severely dilapidated and outdated animal park to a world-class animal facility. Currently, the park is working on a significant renovation project.

Manor Park is committed to ethical trading and education and recognizes the importance of continuous improvement. The park understands the role it has to play in the community and focuses on endangered species while prioritizing animal welfare.

Things to do

Visitors can have a great time in the indoor hay barn at the park. The café in the barn offers free Wi-Fi so that parents can stay in touch with the office while their kids have fun in the secure hay play area. Moreover, visitors can try the DigiWall challenge, which is a new interactive way to climb a wall. The entire Manor Park is covered, enabling visitors to explore the giant indoor play area and bounce in the covered bouncy castle.

The park has two new arrivals – Betty and Cherry, the red panda sisters. Visitors can find them in the forest canopy, where they can watch them enjoy their favourite food – bamboo. The exhibit allows visitors to see the animals from different vantage points, and there is also a stream to replicate their Himalayan home further.

The park also has the UK’s most beautiful wallaby walkthrough. Visitors can sit and stroll among Bennets and Parma wallabies, see the young joeys, and even watch them hop in and out of their mothers’ pouches. Visitors can also feed and stroke a wallaby, making it an experience of a lifetime for animal lovers.

In addition, visitors can meet the friendly group of lemurs in their Madagascan home, nestled in the beautiful Welsh countryside. They can watch the lemurs jump from branch to branch with their babies on their backs or munch on their favourite vegetables. If they are lucky, visitors might even get a chance to share a seat with Mendel, one of the ring-tailed lemurs.

The park also has the African Village, which is a traditional village where visitors can wander among goats, sheep, and chickens and experience traditional African life. They can meet Geraldine the Goat and her babies, see the Cameroon sheep, and wonder how some chickens can be quite so frizzy!

Food & Drink

Head to the Real Food Cafe, which specializes in preparing Italian pizzas using locally sourced ingredients, baked to perfection on-site. The stone-baked Roman pizzas are a must-try. Guests can also savour homemade cakes, high-quality coffee, fairtrade hot chocolate, and a variety of Suki leaf teas. To make it easier for visitors, the cafe now offers a brand new click-and-collect ordering system for pre-ordering meals.