Clifton pizzeria supports Bristol Zoo with a roaring trade
A Clifton pizzeria has renamed one of its best selling pizzas in support of Bristol Zoo Gardens’ conservation fund.
Pizza Provencale, in Regent Street, is now offering customers the newly renamed Roaring Roquefort - a pizza specially dedicated to Bristol Zoo’s Asiatic lion, Kamal.
Kamal’s photo can 
now be seen on the restaurant’s menus, and the restaurant has made a significant donation to the Zoo’s conservation fund.
Restaurant manager, Alice Geleit, said: “We are happy to be able to support a local charity and the Zoo’s conservation fund seemed the perfect choice. It’s fantastic to be able to support the Zoo’s national and international conservation activities.
“We offer a host of different pizzas on our menu, but the Roaring Roquefort is sure to be a popular choice with customers.”
Pizza Provencale is a family-run restaurant and has been in Clifton for 24 years. The Roaring Roquefort has a tomato base and is topped with mozzarella and roquefort cheese.
Lizy Jones, a fundraiser at Bristol Zoo, said: “We are thrilled that Pizza Provencale has chosen to support Bristol Zoo with a donation along with the naming of this pizza in honour of Kamal.”
She added: “A donation of this size is a huge boost to the fund – it could help pay for the lions’ food for around six months, or cover the cost of the collection, rehabilitation and reintroduction of a colony of abandoned African penguin chicks that would otherwise not survive in the wild.”
Bristol Zoo’s conservation fund has been set up in 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, to raise vital funds and give help where the need is greatest for all our conservation and education work.
The fund supports projects both in the UK and abroad, which work directly to protect threatened plants and animals, and their habitats in the wild. Projects range from supporting the UK’s white-clawed crayfish, to protecting lemurs in Madagascar, South African penguin chicks or orphaned gorillas in Cameroon.
For more information about Bristol Zoo Gardens visit the website at www.bristolzoo.org.ukor phone 0117 974 7300.
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For more information please contact Bristol Zoo’s press office:
Lucy Parkinson, T: 0117 974 7306, or email: lparkinson@bristolzoo.org.uk
Vanessa Hollier, T: 0117 974 7309, email: vhollier@bristolzoo.org.uk
Notes to the Editor:
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- Bristol Zoo Gardens is an education and conservation charity and relies on the income from visitors to support its work.
- Throughout 2010 Bristol Zoo will be running a series of events to highlight the importance of conserving the world’s biodiversity, as part of the international Year of Biodiversity. For more information visit the Zoo website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/about/conservation/campaigns/iyob
- To find out more about the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity visit the website at www.biodiversityislife.net
- Bristol Zoo is open from 9am every day except Christmas Day.
- The Zoo is involved with more than 100 co-ordinated breeding programmes for threatened wildlife species.
- Itemploys 140 full and part-time staff to care for the animals and run a successful visitor attraction to support its conservation and education work.
- BristolZoo Gardenssupports – through finance and skill sharing - over 12 projects in the UK and abroad that conserveand protectsome of the world’s most endangered species.
- BristolZoo Gardensis 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.
