The summer hollidays are now upon us and I am sure you are all busy looking for things to do while the children are off school.

Don't forget if you vote for Knowsley Safari Park in Eden TV's Wildlife Attraction of the Year you will get a voucher for a free child entry at the park (conditio...

The Nature of Britain weeknights at 6pm 19th July until 28th July

We've teamed up with television channel Eden!

Catch Eden's Great British Wildlife Season every night from 6pm. Crammed with the greatest nature and wildlife shows on earth, including great programmes such as Animal Pa...

Knowsley Safari Park has had a standing offer for serving armed forces for free entry with their id and being accompanied by another full paying adult since the last Armed Forces Day.

On Saturday 26th June we will be adding to this offer by giving an additional 20% discount to everyone e...

The estate at Knowsley has been owned by the Stanley family since 1385. Lord (Thomas) Stanley was created the 1st Earl of Derby in 1485 after the battle of Bosworth, when Richard III lost the crown of England to Henry Tudor. The Earldom is a local title, coming from the Hundred of West Derby, a...

The first of the 2010 photography sessions with Martin Birchall was held on 13th April and was blessed with sunshine and loads of opportunities to try out new camera skills.

The half day session proved so popular that Martin even had people paying on the day to join in with and take advant...

Last week 3 of Sherdley Primary?s year 5 pupils spent 4 days raising money for the ?Save our squirrels? project by baking cakes and selling them to fellow pupils and teachers.
The girls, Lauren Aspinall, Charlotte Hawley and Katie Rollinson-James who are pictured above raised £58 for a chari...

Stuck at home with nowhere to fly to?

If you have had your flight cancelled because of the volcano bring your booking confirmation to the park and we will give you a discount £3 off per adult and £1 off per child.

Discounts will be given up to and including Friday 23rd April.
Di...

TMP Tourism Awards 2010 Shortlist Announced
The much anticipated shortlist for the TMP Tourism Awards 2010 has today (Tuesday, 6th April, 2010) been revealed.

The annual awards are organised by TMP, the Official Tourist Board for Liverpool City Region.

The prestigious event takes...

Never mind the X-Factor Knowsley Safari Park has the R-Factor. R for Reggie that is and "Ahhhh" for isn't he cute, at least that's the reaction he gets everytime he gets on stage.

10-month-old California sea lion Reggie has moved from Blackpool Zoo to Knowsley Safari Park. turning the ta...

Ok, so it's a giant red squirrel with human hands here at the safari park for the Save Our Squirrels campaign during the Easter holidays.

Red Squirrels have been recorded on Knowsley estate and we are hopeful that we can encourage more in the future. We are working with the Save Our Squir...

It's not looking like a bad start to the Easter break with some mild weather forecast for the last weekend in March to start the holiday off.

During Easter we will be open from 10am to last car entry at 4pm the park will close at 6pm. The amusement rides are open for business and our sea ...

Why not find a gift with a difference this Easter and instead of the usual chocolate egg treat your loved ones to a trip to Knowsley Safari Park. Tickets are available to buy in our online shop (just click the shop link on the top right). For that real special gift check out our animal experien...

Our latest arrival at the park is a male bactrian camel born to mum Mandy last week. The camel, named Charles, now joins Camilla (can you see the theme here?)another camel born just a few weeks before.

Bactrian camels are endangered in the wild but the are growing numbers being kept in zo...

Our sea lion trainer experience has had the age restriction reduced to just 16 years old from 1st March 2010. This opens up this fantastic opportunity to a much wider audience so if you think you might like to have a go and see what sea lions are all about check out this experience in our online...

Although it did snow here last night it had all melted by this morning so we are open as usual today

We are not having much luck with the wather lately and had to close the park again due to snow on Sunday 21st February. With more bad weather forecast we hope we will be able to remain open but if there is more extreme weathre it will always be worth a phone call before setting off just to check...

With Valentine's Day fast approaching have you thought about what you are going to get to show your loved one how much you care?

Why not treat them to an animal experience to remember like our fantastic Keeper for a Day or a one hour Animal Encounter, you can even be a sea lion trainer for...

Half term offers for February 2010 will be out in the following news titles so keep an eye out for offers in your area.

Merseyside
Liverpool Echo
Southport Visiter
Formby Times
Crosby Herald
Bootle Times
Ormskirk Advertiser
Skelmersdale Advertiser
Merseymart and St...

We have managed to open on a limited basis for the first time this year. The rhino section has remained closed due to ice and the lion section is only open enough to see the animals in the enclosed area but there is still a bit of snow on teh ground and the opportunity to get some nice photograp...

Sorry the park will be closed today due to ice on the roads within the park.

Sorry everyone but the park has had to remain closed with all the snow around at the moment making the roads in the park too dangerous for anything but the parks vehicles.

The baboons have been enjoying the snow but have yet to build a snowman. They have been keeping warm in their house a...

Please call the park on 0151 430 9009 before setting off to check that the park is open. Severe weather may mean we have to close.

We had a fantastic response to our 2009 photo competition and it was a really tough task to pick out the winners. In fact the quality was so high we even had to give out an extra "Highly Commended"

1st prize went to Michael Earnshaw with a close up of one of our lions.
2nd prize was wo...

Well done to our winners in the under 18's section of the competition, as with the main competition there was a very high standard of entry this year and again very difficult to judge, we did manage though.

1st prize - Rebecca Dickinson with her picture of a Lechwe in the pond.
2nd priz...

Happy New Year everyone.

It's a frosty start to 2010 but we are open as usual today with the first entry into the drive at 10:30 and last entry at 3pm.

Sea lion shows are at 12:30pm, 2pm and 3:30pm.

Santa is getting on great with our sea lions and has proved a massive hit here at the park.

Max, Biffo and Arthur are really enjoying having a new trainer (Santa) on stage with them, especially one who brings them gifts. All three sea lions have made their Christmas lists and they have ...

The last postal dates are coming up fast so if you are buying online from Knowsley.com or anywhere else online make sure you place your order as soon as you can.

Your last posting dates for Christmas are:

1st Class - 21st December
2nd Class - 18th December
Special Delivery ...

Knowsley.com is offering a wide range of gift vouchers for you, your friends and family to experience all that Knowsley and the Safari Park has to offer.

We have photography days, 4x4 driving and quad bikes, pamper days at Knowsley Hall and Spa and of course Knowsley Safari Parks fantasti...

We have made Knowsley Safari Park's keeper for the day experience even easier to buy by making it available in our online store for the first time.

Knowsley's keeper day makes a fantastic and memorable gift for anyone with even the slightest interest in animals. As a Keeper For A Day you ...

It's that time of year again and don't forget tickets to Knowsley Safari Park make a great gift.

Tickets for 2010 are now available online and animal gift cards are also available.

Season tickets are available at the park at 2009 prices but will be dated from the date of purchase. ...

We are happy to announce that Santa is returning to the park this year to perform once again in the Santa Sealion shows with Max, Biffo and Arthur.

Unfortunately, due to a serious Elf shortage, we have not been able to build Santa a grotto for this year but we hope he will be able to sta...

After the rush of the October half term we are now on our winter opening hours of 10:30am to last entry at 3:00pm.

All amusement rides are now closed for yearly maintenance.

We advise that you try to arrive at the park by 2:00pm so that you have time to see all our animals before it...

Our meerkats have proved themselves to be a model exhibit after artist Philip Garrett came to the park to sculpt them.

Those who have visited the safari park in the last few weeks may have seen Philip as he worked on his latest project next to the meerkat enclosure at the park. From just ...

Knowsley Safari Park is holding a BIG DRAW event on Sunday 25th October 2009, from 1.00pm to 4.00pm where everyone can have the opportunity to get arty and draw something.
Local artist, Philip Garrett (www.sculptureschool.org), who can sometimes be seen sketching and modelling the animals at...

The new school term has started well for our education department with schools already booking trips for the summer term in 2010.

Our Outreach sessions are also proving popular with many schools opting to invite the safari to the school instead of taking the school to the safari. These se...

Max and Biffo our Sea Lions may be helping the parks lottery syndicate win £milllions on this Friday's Euromillions draw.

As the draw has rolled over to an estimated £85 million we all thought we would have a go and get the Max and Biffo to help pick our the lucky star numbers by putting n...

Our most popular exhibition to date.
The August Rainforest Event held in our Safari School building has proved to be the most popular of our events in the last five years with 9,800 of our visitors popping in to see our animals and help raise funds to purchase land in Brazil to make a reserve....

The picture shows park keeper Emma Gatliffe with her standard poodle Macy and new lodger Sultana the Sitatunga.

Sultana needed to be hand reared after being abandoned by her mother at the park and Emma stepped up to volunteer. Because Sultana needed feeding every couple of hours Emma had ...

Knowsley Safari Park has extended it's opening hours on the Safari Drive for the Bank Holiday. The Safari Drive opens at 10am and last car entry will be a 5pm today. The park closes at 6pm.

With FIVE sealion shows, THREE bird of prey displays and talks at the meerkats, otters, red river h...

Starting on 1st August, Save The Rainforest event will be held in the Safari School building all month. The room will be transformed into a mini rainforest and our visitors will have the opportunity to meet rainforest minibeasts at close range.
Knowsley Safari Park is working along with over 2...

Pouched Rat Update.
Here is the latest news on the Pouched Rats, Dan and Eddie. After an initial settling in period, the two boys were eating and growing well, but we were having difficulties in settling them down and keeping them calm. After a while we came to a decision that we would not be...

As wasp season is upon us again Knowsley Safari Park is getting ready to put up it's wasp traps for another season to help protect our visitors from stings.

But the wasp isn't all bad and actually helps to keep down the number of other pests in our gardens and parks. During spring and ear...

Our baboons have been issued with Anti Soial Baboon Orders after discovering a technique to open car roofboxes and have been making the most of the extra "playthings" they can find inside them.

To demonstrate this behaviour staff at the park sent through a car with a roof box that they had...

A multi-award-winning North West photographer is launching a new series of photo
workshops at Knowsley Safari Park.

Martin Birchall - a former British Photographer of the Year - will hold his first safari
photo walk between 9am and 4pm on Thursday July 9th.

The workshops are ...

Knowsley Safari Park?s Safari School is enjoying a very busy year with school bookings better than ever before. June has proved to be a popular month for school trips and July is fully booked until the last week of the month. With more schools opting for the parks excellent educational sessions...

Knowsley Safari Park had a visit from members of the armed forces on Sunday, 14th June, with some very unusual requests.

As part of 33rd Lancashire and Cheshire Signal Regiment (volunteers) exercise Bomb Burst Staff Sergeants Karl Davies, Dave Griffiths and Tommy Hankin had to complete a l...

We now have a New Arrivals page up on the web site so you can keep up to date with all our babies born at the park and any new additions and attractions as well.

The latest addition is a baby camel born in the early hours of Sunday 7th June. A video of this new addition will be availabl...

Faye Shears visited the park yesterday for a VIP trip to the park that she won in our adopters prize draw. After a guided tour around the park in one of our Safari Land Rovers Faye had the chance to meet our Giraffe, the species that was adopted for her as a Valentine gift (extra brownie points...

Aerial Extreme are holding charity events called Superhero Sundays from 31st May. On the last Sunday of every month, book on between 10am and 11am get half price entry and all proceeds go to charity. Starts Sunday 31st May with money going to Willowbrook Hospice.

Congratulations to Faye Shears, the winner of our adopters prize draw, who has won a VIP trip to the park for four people giving them all the chance to get even closer to our animals than usual. Faye won this trip by adopting a giraffe earlier this year.

We look forward to meeting Faye at...

After a visit from local poet Kevin McCann last year for Knowsley Borough's "Around the Borough in 80 Reads" our sea lions Max, Biffo and Arthur inspired their own poem.

Click "more" to read the full poem

Photo-op
As the Sea-Lion
Hauls onto this platform-
Two shows daily ...

Our first ever Facebook offer is on Friday 15th May 2009 and open to all our Facebook fans. To find out about this offer simply join Facebook and become a fan of Knowsley Safari Park. There is a link on the front page "Find us on Facebook" click this to find our fan page

Save our Squirrels and Knowsley Safari Park have been working together to let people know what?s going on and to raise much needed cash for the conservation of the endangered red squirrel. Knowsley Safari Park set up a Save our Squirrels one stop shop over the Easter break where people could find...

Our troop of baboons have made the newspapers again this week. Not with their destruction of cars this time but with their incredible grasp of information technology and social networking on the world wide web.

Our baboons have launched their own Twitter under the name of KnowsleyBaboons ...

Little monkeys will be descending on Knowsley Safari Park on Friday, 8th May, to ape around for sick and disabled children.



Nurseries, toddler groups and families from across the area will be taking part in Merseyside?s first ?Monkey March? in aid of national Charity, Caudwell...

Some of our visitors get closer to the animals than they might expect. The lions around this Ford look like they are eyeing up their next meal but our visitors are perfectly safe in their car.

We now have a pride of 20 lions at Knowsley including our four most recent cubs who are now enjo...

Lots of new arrivals for the Easter week.

9 Pere David's Deer
4 Meerkats
1 Axis Deer
and 1 Baboon

Lots to keep the parks mums very busy and plenty for our visitors to see.

Baby season has definitely started here at Knowsley, so far we have;

A Lechwe calf born 28th March
An Eland calf born 31st March
7 Pere David's calves
16 Ostrich eggs
And the multiple baboon babies already running around and eyeing up their first wiper blades.

As well as...

As an alternative to the chocolate egg this year why not treat your friends and loved ones to a gift from Knowsley Safari Park.

Day tickets, season tickets and animal adoptions are all available from our online shop and would make an EGGsiting gift for anyone.

With spring in the air Knowsley Safari Park visitors can now enjoy a range of native British wildlife as well as the attractions of more exotic specimens. For example this affectionate couple are part of a group - or drove - of hares currently sharing a paddock with Knowsley's wildebeest.
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Craig Jackson from the Northern Tuli Game Reserve wild dog project has updated us on the progress of the project that Knowsley Safari Park has sponsored. The project aims to establish a viable pack of wild dog within the Limpopo Valley region of eastern Botswana. Knowsley Safari Park has sponsore...

Dan and Eddie have settled in to Knowsley Safari Park very well. They have separate enclosures with shelves, ladders, hammocks and nest area. They are growing up nicely and now weigh in at around 900g with Eddie the slightly heavier of the two.
Their training starts at 9.30 every morning when ...

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The latest edition of the Knowsley Safari Park newsletter is now available for download. To get your copy just copy and paste the link above in to your browsers address bar and then click the link for newsletter number 7.

If you...

All the recent snow hasn't dampened the spirits of the animals at Knowsley and the park has remained open throughout the bad weather.

Our animals all had great fun too with many of the animals experiencing snow for the very first time. Our baboons had great fun digging in the snow and sli...

Our young baboons were like exited children experiencing snow for the first time. After a while they tried to keep their hands warm by walking upright.

Knowsley Safari Park proved to be a sanctuary for a group of snipe - known
as a wisp - during the cold weather.
Warm underground streams at the park ensure that some parts of the site
never freeze over, providing the soft ground the snipe need to hunt for
insects using their long bill...

Knowsley Safari Park is now proud to be the home for two Gambian Pouched Rats also known as the hero rat. In Africa these rats have been trained to use their incredible sense of smell to search for hidden land mines so they can be cleared away saving the local people from serious injury or death...

The 2009 photographic competition is now up and running and ready for your entries. Just send in your favorite picture taken at Knowley Safari Park (it doesn't have to be an animal) to;

Photo Compettion 2009
Knowsley Safari Park
Prescot
L34 4AN

or email to safari.park@kn...

We have had a very cold start to 2009 but we are still open and have already seen some fantastic photographs taken by visitors of some of our animals in the frost. We have even had some in the national press. Opening times are 10:30am to last entry at 3pm.

At last our 2008 TV advert is available to view online. Our advert was a complete change from our normal format and really shows our baboons at their mischievous best. The challenge is "Drive it if you dare".

Our third baby rhino arrived safely last week to make it three new arrivals in the last five months. The male calf and mother, Piglet, are both doing well and are being kept warm inside during this cold weather.
This brings our ?crash? of rhinos to 10! When they are all out next spring they ...

With our now elderly meerkat group failing to breed for two years we have introduced a new pair of meerkats to an area at the lake farm. This backup pair have produced their first litter of 3 who are now growing well. Hopefully after their next litter we will swap them over and they will become...

Elliot the marmoset was born on 28th May 2008 and as the third of triplets to mum Rio he had to be hand reared if he was to survive.

Park photographer, Penny, came to the rescue and Elliot is going from strength to strength. At almost six months old now he is getting up to mischief with f...

After a very prolific breeding season by the Peer David's Deer we found ourselves in the fortunate position of having to reduce our stock numbers of this species.

The Peer David's deer were once extinct in the wild but after a number of successful breeding programs have been reintroduced...

Our marmoset Rio has had triplets once again! Luckily park photographer Penny was on hand again to hand rear the third baby.

The new baby, who is about the size of an adults thumb, joins his brother Elliot who was reared by Penny earlier this year. We don't have a name for the new baby y...

Cara, a rhino calf was born on 7th October. Cara is our second calf in three months and we hope will be joined by a third calf sometime soon. Cara's birth was captured on camera by one of the parks rhino keepers and you can watch the film online.

Paste the following link into your web br...

The winner of the under 18 category of this years photo competition is Alexandra Oxford aged 8 with a fantastic picture of a very fierce looking lion.

Second place is Daniel Earnshaw aged 12 with a shot of a Harris Hawk from Gauntlet Bird Of Prey at Knowsley Safari Park.

Third Place...

Over 18's winner was Michael Earnshaw with a great head shot of one of our rhea.

Second place was Gemma Brown showing off the work of our on site face painter.

Third place was Kim Smith again with a head and neck shot of a rhea, a popular theme this year.

Fourth place went to...

Winners in the Aphibian Ark colouring competion were;

Katie Stokes age 6 from Cheshire
Connor Buchanan age 11 from Sheffield and
Elizabeth Erskine age 13 from Northwich.

Staff at Knowsley Safari Park are celebrating the birth of a baby white rhino in the early hours of this morning (Monday July 28th).

The as-yet-unnamed male is the first rhino calf to be born at the park for two years.
The new baby and his 14-year-old mum Meru are both doing well and as...

Park photographer Penny Boyd has been playing mum to a baby marmoset monkey.

Elliot the marmoset was one of triplets born at the park. Female marmosets only have two teats and produce enough milk to feed two babies so when this happens in the wild the third baby would die. Not at Knowsle...

Furget-me-not save the otter campaign gets a boost from Knowsley Safari Park. Our staff have been helping to raise awareness of the plight of s.e. Asian otters over this Easter holiday period, selling badges, fluffy otters and otter masks, and bucket rattling after the Sea Lion Shows. So far we h...