Bristol Zoo pop-up shop to open at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway for Christmas - 04/11/11
Unique gifts and animal experiences will be on offer in a new, pop-up shop from Bristol Zoo at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway from next week.
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he Bristol Zoo shop will open on the ground floor, near John Lewis, next Friday, November 11thand will be open every day (excluding Christmas day) until Saturday January 7, 2012.
It offers a variety of Christmas present ideas for animal lovers or the friend who is difficult to buy for - from Zoo tickets and membership, to animal adoptions, toys, teddies and unique animal experiences.
Gifts that allow you to get up-close to the animals include ‘keeper for the day’ and ‘junior keeper for the day’. The Zoo also offers unique ‘animal experience’ gifts that include getting hands-on with meerkats, seals, penguins or lemurs.
Animal adoptions also make a great present and you can choose from a 
selection of different animals to adopt, such as Babushka the meerkat, Poppy the penguin or Kukena the new baby gorilla. Adoption gift packages cost £45 and include two zoo tickets, a cuddly toy, a certificate, the Zoo magazine, a fact file about your animal and your name displayed by the zoo’s animal exhibit.
By adopting an animal you will be making a valuable contribution towards the upkeep of the animals and supporting field conservation of threatened species in the wild.
For more information about unique animal gifts and experiences, visit the Zoo website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/unique-gifts-and-experiences or to browse the Zoo’s online gift shop or to buy tickets to the Zoo, visit www.bristolzoo.org.uk/web-shop. Please order your Christmas gift early to ensure you receive it in time for Christmas.
The Bristol Zoo shop is on the ground floor of The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, near John Lewis. For more information about the new shop, visit the Zoo website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/zoo-shop-cribbs-causeway or www.mallcribbs.com or phone 0117 974 7300.
Bristol Zoo also has a host of Christmas events this winter, for details of what’s on, visit the website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/whats-on
Gift ideas from Bristol Zoo
- Gorilla soft toy £7
- Lion soft toy £10
- Ring-tailed lemur soft toy £8.50
- Penguin wooden craft kit £3
- Meerkat mug £5.75
- Zoo book - An Illustrated History of Bristol Zoo £15
- Animal Experiences – meerkats, penguins, lemurs or seals (£70)
- Keeper for the day experience (£225)
- Junior keeper for the day experience (£60)
- Birds of prey courses (various prices, from taster sessions at £30 to full day experiences for £160)
Visit the Zoo website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/web-shop to buy gifts online (P&P charges apply).
What’s on at Bristol Zoo this Christmas
Bristol Zoo’s Fantabulous Christmas - two evenings of Christmas capers.
December 19 & 20, 5.30pm – 8pm
Two magical evenings of festive frolics. Visitors will be able to join in with carol singing, meet and feed Santa’s reindeer,listen to a merry brass band and be entertained by the Snowball Sprites and the Lost Elves as they roam around the Zoo. There will also be spectacular ice sculpting demonstrations, offering visitors the chance to have a go themselves. As well as enjoying the festivities, visitors will be able to meet Santa in his welcoming grotto*, listen to story-telling around the bonfire and visit the animals in the heated Aquarium, Reptile House and Bugworld.Tickets in advance: £7.50 (£5 child) / family £20. On the night £9 (£6 child) / family £24. Discounts apply for Zoo members and groups of 10+. You can buy tickets online via the Zoo website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/whats-on *Please be aware that demand is likely to be very high and there is an extra charge for Santa’s Grotto
Santa’s Grotto at Bristol Zoo
Weekends: November 26 & 27; December 3 & 4 and 10 & 11. Open every day from December 19 – 23 Dec.
£4 per child.
Meet and feed Santa’s reindeer
December 17 – December 28
Jingle and Belle will be flying in to Bristol Zoo for the Christmas holidays. Visitors can get up-close to the reindeer, stroke their velvety noses and feed them their favourite food (small charge applies/STA).
Take a ride on the Santa Express
Daily from November 26 – December 28, £1 per passenger
Sustainable Christmas tree sale at Bristol Zoo
Sat 26 Nov – Fri 24 Dec
Quality, locally sourced Christmas trees will be on sale in the Zoo’s west car park in College Road, Clifton.
Notes to editors
- Bristol Zoo is open from 9am every day except Christmas Day.
- Bristol Zoo Gardens is a conservation and education charity and relies on income from visitors and supporters to continue its important work.
- In 2011 Bristol Zoo celebrates its 175th anniversary and wants to do more than celebrate.
- Over that past 175 years, the Zoo has brought six generations of Bristolians closer to wildlife, helped save over 175 species from extinction, established over 30 field conservation and research programmes all over the world, showed 40 millionschool aged children the wonder of nature and given more than 90 million visitors a wonderful day out.
- Throughout 2011 we’re bring people, businesses, charities and wildlife together to share amazing experiences that raise awareness and funds to save threatened wildlife and places. To find out more, visit www.bristolzoo.org.uk/whats-on
- Throughout 2011 we will be focusing our efforts on raising funds and awareness in support of gorilla conservation.
- Throughout 2011 Bristol Zoo will support theEuropean Association of Zoos and Aquaria Ape Campaign.The campaign aims to make a significant and lasting contribution to the continued survival of apes and their habitats, and is being led by Dr Bryan Carroll, the Director of Bristol Zoo.
- To find out more about the EAZA Ape Campaign visit the Zoo website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/conservation-campaigns.
- Bristol Zoo is involved with more than 100 co-ordinated breeding programmes for threatened wildlife species.
- Itemploys over 150 full and part-time staff to care for the animals and run a successful visitor attraction to support its conservation and education work.
- Bristol Zoo supports – through finance and skill sharing - 15 projects in the UK and abroad that conserveand protectsome of the world’s most endangered species.
- In 2010 Bristol Zoo Gardens set up a Conservation Fund to raise vital funds to help care for threatened animals and plants – both in the Zoo and through the conservation work we do in the UK and around the world.
- Bristol Zoo Gardens is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums. BIAZA represents more than 90 member collections and promotes the values of good zoos and aquariums.
