Birmingham Nature Centre
Entrance in 2014
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| Date opened | 1974 |
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| Location | Birmingham, England |
| Coordinates | 52°27′02″N 1°54′38″W / 52.450498°N 1.910430°WCoordinates: 52°27′02″N 1°54′38″W / 52.450498°N 1.910430°W |
| Annual visitors | 1,450 |
| Memberships | EAZA |
| Website | www |
Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park (formerly Birmingham Nature Centre, and before that Birmingham Zoo) is a small zoo on the edge of Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, England. It is managed by Birmingham City Council.
The zoo features mainly small mammals. Its occupants include:
The nature centre used to have a pair of male red pandas. However these have been re-housed as part of the national breeding program. Ming Ming is visiting a female red panda in the Welsh Mountain Zoo.
Babu is a red panda who disappeared from the nature centre in November 2005 and spent four days "on the loose" before being discovered. Nature centre staff believe he was blown out of a tree and found himself outside his enclosure. His disappearance and the citywide panda hunt that ensued made national headlines. After being discovered by a dog-walker in Moseley, Babu was dramatically reunited with his brother Tensing live on Midlands Today.
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