Dalu's Day - In Honour of our Big Cat Hero! - 11/05/2010
It has almost been a year since we lost our dear friend, workmate and much loved...

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A big thank you to all the guys at making my visit a special one - my best day was the final behind the scenes and a special Cheetah chat later that day were Kenya licked my leg. I will never forget the experience meeting the Big Cats at Zion.

Roberta - England
There are fewer than 20,000 lions left in the African continent, while the rare Barbary lion is now extinct within its natural habitat there are approximately 250 living in captivity.
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Due to popular demand fans will now have the opportunity to adopt some of their favourite big cat at Zion for 12 months. When you sign up to adopt your cat, you will receive:

  • An exclusive Zion Wildlife Gardens Adoption Certificate for your cat
  • Photograph of your gorgeous feline
  • Fact sheet about your cat
  • Fact sheet about the species
  • A 10% Zion Wildlife Gardens Tour Discount Card valid for 2 adults for 12 months
  • You will also receive a personalised 6 monthly email newsletter all about the new member of your family.

We currently have 20 cats up for adoption, unfortunately though we can't let you take them home with you!  More cats will be put up for adoption over coming months so please check back regularly to see if your favourite feline has been added.

Anyone from around the world can now adopt cats at Zion.  With the use of Paypal, international adoptions are not a problem!  The cost for a 12 month adoption is NZ$250.00 per cat.  There are now two payment options available - click "Add to Cat" to make a one off payment of NZ$250.00.  Or to make a monthly payment of NZ$21.00 per month over 12 months click "Subscribe".  Please allow 15 to 20 working days for delivery of your Adoption Pack.

By adopting one of our cats at Zion yuo are helping to provide the very best of care to all the cats that call Zion Wildlife Gardens their home.

Please allow up to 20 working days for delivery of your adoption pack.

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Abdullah Abdullah
Age: 3
About: 

Abdullah is a very special lion he is half white lion and half Barbary lion.  He was born and raised Zion Wildlife Gardens along with his Brother Tshaka and sister Cleo.


   

Amafu Amafu
Age: 5
About: 

Amafu is a white lioness.  She lives with Laduma, Imvula and the two cheeky boys Timba and Themba


   

Aslan Aslan
Age: 7
About: 

Aslan was born in 2002 and was from a litter of 5.  Aslan and his sister Narnia were hand reared and live together with their older sister Savannah at Zion Wildlife Gardens, Whangarei.


   

Gandor Gandor
Age: 6
About: 

Gandor was Zion Wildlife Gardens' first white lion, he arrived at Zion mid-2004 along with his good friend Shikira (a tawny Barbary lioness). He's now been joined by Laduma, Amafu and Imvula - three more extremely scarce white lions.


   

Imvula Imvula
Age: 5
About: 

Imvula arrived from South Africa with Laduma and Amafu.  She has had several litters of cubs at Zion Wildlife Gardens and is a fantastic mother.


   

Indira Indira
Age: 5
About: 

Indira is a 5 year old Bengal tiger she and her sister Kahli were born at Zion and hand reared. 


   

Kahli Kahli
Age: 5
About: 

Kahli loves water, and enjoys playing chase games with Indira jumping in and out of their water trough in their enclosure. On a hot day, you will often find her sprawled out in the water.

 

   

Kenya Kenya
Age: 5
About: 

Kenya arrived from South Africa approximately 3 years ago.  He was very nervous and untrusting of humans.  Ash, Zion's Senior Keeper has spent many hours working with both Kenya and Thabo, and now both cats enjoy human interaction.


   

Laduma Laduma
Age: 5
About: 

Laduma arrived from South Africa with two breeding partners Amafu and Imvula.  He has now fathered several litters at Zion including Sabie, Sibili, Moya and Marah.  Timba and Themba.


   

Mandla Mandla
Age: 7
About: 

Mandla is a stunning black leopard who arrived from England approximately 4 years ago.  He is one of the park's most popular cats due to his fantastic coat and markings.


   

Narnia Narnia
Age: 7
About: 

Narnia is 7 years old and was hand raised at Zion.


   

Rewa Rewa
Age: 8
About: 

Rewa arrived from America with Jahdu, Abu, Tygo and Shikana.  She has had one litter of cubs at Zion the 3 gorgeous girls Kala, Azra and Anila.


   

Shanti Shanti
Age: 4
About: 

Shanti is one of our most popular white tigers.  She was born at Zion along with her two brothers Rongo and Kiwi, who were later sent to South Africa.  Shanti was so lonely when they left, that she was introduced to a litter of lion cubs born around the same period and they soon became firm friends.  Shanti to this day still lives with her lion mates something you would never see in the wild!


   

Shikana Shikana
Age: 11
About: 

Shikana is one of the parks sweeties. She has a lovely nature and is loved by all the staff at Zion. She is also a fantastic mother to her cubs and is very maternal.

 

   

Shikira Shikira
Age: 5
About: 

Shikira came to Zion Wildlife Gardens as a companion for Gandor they arrived from South Africa and quickly settled into life at Zion.  Shikira rules the roost in her enclosure, and is the only lionness brave enough to take food from a male lion!


   

Sibili Sibili
Age: 2
About: 

As a cub Sibili had a very special toy, a soft green ducky. “Ducky” went everywhere with him, he used to go to sleep cuddling Ducky but as he got older and rougher poor Ducky’s insides ended up being outside so he spent a long time carrying around Ducky’s fluffy skin with no stuffing in it.


   

Silas Silas
Age: 11
About: 

Silas is our male Several cat at Zion.  Both Silas and Zoe are relatively wild, but staff at Zion have been working and interacting with them more over recent months to allow staff to hand feed them.


   

Tshaka Tshaka
Age: 3
About: 

Tshaka lives with his brother Abdullah and sister Cleo.  They also have one other very special friend in their enclosure Shanti one of the white tigers at Zion has been raised along side these three special lions and shares a very close bond with them.


   

Tygo Tygo
Age: 8
About: 

Tygo is our biggest white tiger at the park.  When he is standing on his hind legs he is over 6ft tall!  He also enjoys exercising he is often the first cat awake in the morning and gets into a fitness workout as soon as he wakes up which usually involves bashing his ball around his enclosure.


   

Zion Zion
Age: 10
About: 

Zion, was born in 1999 and is the name sake of the park and along with his sister Shia was hand-reared. 


   

Zoe Zoe
Age: 11
About: 

Zoe is our female Serval cat.  The pair originally came from New Plymouth and have been residents at Zion Wildlife Gardens from the beginning.


   

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