Howletts Wild Animal Park Kent

Bring your group to Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent. With 90 acres to explore, the beautiful ancient parkland is home to over 390 animals, including the UK’s largest herd of elephants, generations of gorillas including our baby gorillas, Saffi and Kumbi, as well as monkeys, leopards, giant anteaters and lion cubs, Zemo and Zala.

Join our curriculum linked school talks and workshops that cover a variety of topics for al key stages, watch the animals being fed, walk side-by-side with our lively Lemurs at our Walking With Lemurs experience, run off some energy in the variety of play parks and discover creatures from a forgotten time as you explore Animals of the Ice Age in our leafy Woodland Walk.

See conservation in action. Your ticket will help to fund not only the care of the animals here at Howletts Wild Animal Park but will also support out partner charity’s overseas projects. Howletts work with The Aspinall Foundation to rewild as many of their animals as possible, together we have released more than 75 gorillas back to the wild, 280 primates, 8 black rhino and the plan is to rewild the elephant herd back to Africa.

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• Howletts Wild Animal Park has the largest herd of elephants in the UK.
• Howletts Wild Animal Park has more gorillas than any other zoo. Howletts Wild Animal Park is one of the most successful breeders of West Lowland gorillas, so there are always baby gorillas to see.
• Conservation is at the heart of Howletts Wild Animal Park. Howletts works in partnership with The Aspinall Foundation to rewild their animals where possible. They have reintroduced gorillas to the Congo, gibbons and langur to Java and plan on rewilding the elephants to Africa in the future.
• Free curriculum linked school talks and workshops.
• Lion cubs, Zemo and Zala are now on show in their own enclosure for visitors to meet

– Entrance to Howletts Wild Animal Park to see over 390 animals, including Kent’s only giant anteaters, the largest herd of African elephants in the UK, more gorillas than any other zoo, leopards, monkeys, lion cubs, lemur walk through

– Interactive ranger talks. Curriculum linked school talks and workshops to suit all key stages. Choose from a range of animal talks and workshops to make your Kent school trip even more memorable.

– Animals Of The Ice Age – discover creatures from a forgotten time as you explore Animals of the Ice Age in our leafy Woodland Walk.

– Play areas – there are a variety of play areas around the parkland.

We cater for any group size as long as its 15 +

Howletts Wild Animal Park provides a map for each child. There are no materials required for the talks and workshops.

No commercial filming, recording or photography of any kind in any media is permitted without permission of Howletts Wild Animal Park.

These are provided at time of booking.

Contact us on 01303 264 647 or

Email us group@howletts.com

School Child aged 3 – 15: £10

Student aged 16+ : £12

Teacher of TA: £12 (one admitted free per 5 paying children)

We just advise suitable footwear for walking.

First aid is on site and our staff are first aid trained.

• There are lots of picnic areas and cafes to eat lunch.
• Pocket money is required if children want to shop in the gift shop.
• There are toilets located around the park.
• There are two cafes and coffee/snacks/ice cream kiosks
• On site souvenir shop

We are DDA compliant.

We do not have qualitied SEM staff

There are accessible toilets

Our winter season begins at the end of November.

​​During this time we are open 10am-4pm on Friday-Sundays and school holiday dates only.

We will reopen 7 days a week for our spring season on Friday 29th March 2024.

Winter weekend opening dates (open 10am-4pm):

12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 26th, 27th, 28th January

2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th 16th, 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th, 25th February

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th, 10th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th March

February half term:

Open 10am-4pm, Monday 12th February – Sunday 18th February 2024