Lenny the land snail was all alone until a group of children decided to help him find a friend, the beginning of an adventure for them all – and for the hundreds of children who came along to a Zoo Centre story session.
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Signage display project
In 1992, two Industrial Design students from Carmarthen College of Technology and Art, Stephen Thomas and Gary Orme, were volunteered by their lecturer Mike Whalley to work on a design for a flexible and cost-effective mounting system to display the new signage I was developing for Penscynor Wildlife Park.
Continue readingPenscynor for Scouts and Guides
In the early 1990s the Penscynor education team organised a number of activity days for Scouts and Guides to support the World Conservation Award.
How to make a cardboard rainforest
I took over as Education Officer at Penscynor Wildlife Park in November 1990. My first act was to beg my good friend Bernie Ryan to come down to Wales and help me out as a volunteer. Thankfully, he came. We were now, a ‘department’. I set about the important job of thinking up a name, ‘The Education and Bright Ideas Department’ seemed to be a good fit, so we went with that.
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Adopt an animal
Penscynor Wildlife Park, like many zoos, ran a successful ‘Adopt an animal’ scheme. Adopters received an information sheet about their favourite animal, a certificate, a plaque at the entrance and on the animal’s enclosure, three free visits a year and, at the end of their year, a news sheet updating them with all the latest gossip about their animal.
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