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Win a family ticket and big cat encounter to celebrate Carnivore Week at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Bekesbourne, near Canterbury

By: Sam Lawrie slawrie@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 09:40, 26 July 2024

Updated: 11:18, 26 July 2024

Get your teeth into this totally wild prize.

To celebrate Carnivore Week at Howletts Wild Animal Park, we’re giving one lucky winner family tickets for an unforgettable day trip.

Howletts, in Bekesbourne, is putting on six weeks of animal-themed fun during the summer holidays.

The park is showcasing different species each week and, from Monday, July 29 to Sunday, August 4, it’s time to bare your teeth and roar as it’s Carnivore Week.

Achilles, Howletts’ male Sumatran tiger, will be the star of the show during Carnivore Week. Picture: Steve Reigate

There will be a themed activity trail, free animal feeds, talks from the experts, face painting and craft stations where you can create your own masks.

And, as a special treat for Carnivore Week, your prize will include a chance to meet some of these incredible animals in a carnivore encounter. Choose from the Clouded Leopard, Painted Dogs, Bar Eared Foxes, Snow Leopard or Sumatran Tiger.

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To be in with a chance of winning this fantastic family prize, click here.

We’re giving away family tickets and an animal encounter at Howletts Wild Animal Park - where you can also see the grumpy-looking Pallas cat! Picture: Howletts

As you explore the site, you and your family can see more than 390 animals across 90 acres of parkland and visit the Animals of the Ice Age trail.

These themed weeks are also a great opportunity to learn more about the conservation work Howletts does with its partner charity, the Aspinall Foundation.

In May 2022, a pair of lion cubs, Azi and Zazu, born in Kent were sent to the Lover Lions Alive sanctuary in South Africa to roam an area ten times the size of their enclosure in the UK.

The brothers were born at Howletts’ sister park, Port Lympne Hotel and Reserve in Hythe, but were rejected by the existing pride during infancy.

Due to health concerns, the cubs were transferred to Howletts and raised by the team until they were able to travel to South Africa.

Azi and Zazu, two sibling lion cubs born in Kent, were sent to the Lover Lions Alive sanctuary in South Africa by the Aspinall Foundation. Picture: Howletts

Also, in 2023, Tembe, a six-year-old female honey badger, became the first European-born honey badger to be rewilded in the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga Province as part of the Aspinall Foundation’s Back to the Wild initiative.

Tembe’s new home at the reserve covers an area of more than 23,000 hectares and she now lives with around 15 wild honey badgers, as well as giraffe, white rhino, zebra and insects and small vertebrates which make up the bulk of her diet.

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This summer is also your last chance to see Zemo and Zala, the two lion cubs currently at Howletts that will be rewilded in their native South Africa towards the end of the season.

And, if you visit on Monday, July 29, make sure to stop off and say hello to the Sumatran tigers, Tipah and Achilles, as it’s International Tiger Day.

Tembe, a female honey badger rewilded as part of the Aspinall Foundation’s Back to the Wild initiative, is thriving in her new home. Picture: Howletts

You can find tickets to Howletts online here.

If you’re planning to visit Howletts with a group during the summer, you can save up to 35% with the park’s new ticket bundle.

The new value ticket offer is available for groups of up to six people and can give visitors a saving of up to £45 when compared to buying individual tickets.

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