Every one of our Run for Wildlife events has a unique animal theme to help raise awareness.
It also provide us with our design ideas for the medal and optional t-shirt.
Say hello to the King of the Jungle... What better way to celebrate these incredible animals, and St Georges day on April the 23rd 2023!
Lions can come to blows with humans when they can’t find their natural prey and resort to attacking livestock.
Lion bone has recently become a substitute for tiger bone in alternative medicine.
Loss of habitat due to human activity has left lion populations fragmented and isolated.
Lions’ prey are losing their habitat too! This is causing numbers to dip so lions can’t find enough to eat.
In 2009 in Romania, three prides of African Lions were living in filthy tiny concrete pens, fed on a meagre diet of scraps and faced an uncertain future.
At the time, YWP was a new park and did not have the funds to rehouse and care for the Lions. However, a public campaign was launched that raised £150,000 towards helping bring the Lions to their new home in Yorkshire!
Every one of our Run for Wildlife events has a unique animal theme to help raise awareness.
It also provide us with our design ideas for the medal and optional t-shirt (profits go to the foundation).
So say hello to the incredible Red Pandas...
Red Pandas are endangered species with less than 10,000 left in the wild.
As you hike through 'Himalayan Pass' look up into the trees and spot the adorable Red Panda sisters: Alice, Ariel and Aurora.
The Red Panda trio were born in June 2019 and live in the ‘Himalayan Pass’ reserve. They all have their favourite spot to sleep high up in the trees.
Despite their species name, Red Pandas are not closely related to the Giant Panda – they are most closely related to Weasels and Racoons.
Their curved sharp, semi-retractile claws and an extension to the wrist form a false thumb to help them manipulate bamboo. They can also rotate their ankles to control their vertical descent from trees..
Red pandas were identified and named ‘Panda’ around 1826, almost 40 years before Giant Pandas who got their name due to having similar eating habits to the Red Panda!
Their habitat includes deciduous and conifer forests with an understory of bamboo on the mountain slopes and valleys of the Himalayas in Asia.
They leave droppings in particular places and have glands on their feet to leave smelly marks that give information to their neighbours.
Red Pandas build a nest in a hollow log or rock crevice and usually give birth to 1-4 cubs.
With your help, the Wildlife Foundation are making the world a better place for animals.
The Wildlife Foundation are based at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Doncaster.
While Yorkshire Wildlife Park is caring for the animals at the Park and working on conservation projects at home, Yorkshire Wildlife Park Foundation is the away team. They work with partners in conservation and welfare around the world, who are doing a great job protecting and saving animals and improving welfare in zoos or in the wild.
The Run for Wildlife events help directly support the Wildlife Foundation, so firstly a huge thank you for your support by simply entering the event :)
If you would like to help even further through your running, then you'll find everything you need here to get started!
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