Thank you Ann for taking the time to write a review. As New Zealand's only open range zoo this means our Park is larger and generally more rustic as the Park is set on 180 hectares, so we are not like most urban zoos where the animals are in smaller habitats. We are pleased to hear you still found some interesting attractions like hand feeding our majestic giraffes and hope you visited NZ's only gorillas while at the Park.

Thank you for taking the time to write a review about your visit to the park. We are pleased to hear you enjoyed your visit and met some of our precious animals, Kevin (the baby giraffe) is definitely a favourite for many at the moment!

Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review! We are delighted you enjoyed your visit to the Park and meeting some of our dedicated team. We hope to see you again :)

Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback following your visit to Orana Wildlife Park. We value all customer feedback and appreciate you taking the time to provide your comments. Naturally, we are disappointed to hear Park did not meet your expectations. Orana is set on 80 hectares and is home to over 1000 animals representing 90 different species. The balance we aim to achieve in an open range setting is displaying animals in spacious exhibits whilst also not having visitors peer at specks in the distance. Over the years, we have worked hard to develop a range of interesting scheduled daily animal feed presentations enabling visitors to view our animals up close and to interact with the keepers during their public talks. I will pass your comments onto the maintenance team in regards to the Park seeming rundown. We have a small but hardworking maintenance team along with our amazing volunteers who help us tidy the Park, with the extreme heat we are currently experiencing there is a fire risk so we are having to limit the use of electrical mowing appliances. Prior to this we had a period of rain/sun/rain/sun which caused a surge in growth through the Park and due to the size we were unable to keep up with it. Orana Wildlife Park is a registered charitable trust and not-for-profit organization. We heavily rely on gate takings to operate and in fact, over 80% of our income is derived from gate sales, so we thank you for visiting. Your support goes directly back into the Park and allows us to continue our conservation work, such as breeding kākāriki karaka for release to the wild. Thank you again for your feedback. We hope you will consider visiting us again.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review Tarryn and for your support over the years. Orana Wildlife Park is a registered charitable trust and not-for-profit organization. We heavily rely on gate takings to operate and in fact, over 80% of our income is derived from gate sales, so we thank you for visiting. Your support goes directly back into the Park and allows us to continue our conservation work, such as breeding kākāriki karaka for release to the wild. Thank you for your feedback on shade and food trucks around the Park, I will pass this on to the team.

Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback following your visit to Orana Wildlife Park. We value all customer feedback and appreciate you taking the time to provide your comments. Orana is set on 80 hectares and is home to over 1000 animals representing 90 different species. The balance we aim to achieve in an open range setting is displaying animals in spacious exhibits whilst also not having visitors peer at specks in the distance. Over the years, we have worked hard to develop a range of interesting scheduled daily animal feed presentations enabling visitors to view our animals up close and to interact with the keepers during their public talks. We encourage visitors to follow this schedule to ensure they get the most out of their visit. We only have the one cafe and at peak times this can get very busy. There are two bbq's which are free for visitors to use as well as picnic areas where visitors are welcome to bring their own food to enjoy. Orana Wildlife Park is a registered charitable trust and not-for-profit organization. We heavily rely on gate takings to operate and in fact, over 80% of our income is derived from gate sales, so we thank you for visiting. Your support goes directly back into the Park and allows us to continue our conservation work, such as breeding kākāriki karaka for release to the wild.

Hi Zappy018, thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback following your visit to Orana Wildlife Park. We value all customer feedback and appreciate you taking the time to provide your comments. Naturally, we are disappointed to hear the Park did not meet your expectations. Orana is set on 80 hectares and is home to over 1000 animals representing 90 different species. The balance we aim to achieve in an open range setting is displaying animals in spacious exhibits whilst also not having visitors peer at specks in the distance. Over the years, we have worked hard to develop a range of interesting scheduled daily animal feed presentations enabling visitors to view our animals up close and to interact with the keepers during their public talks. We encourage visitors to follow this schedule to ensure they get the most out of their visit. Orana Wildlife Park is a registered charitable trust and not-for-profit organization. We heavily rely on gate takings to operate and in fact, over 80% of our income is derived from gate sales, so we thank you for visiting. Your support goes directly back into the Park and allows us to continue our conservation work, such as breeding kākāriki karaka for release to the wild.

Hi Claire, thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback following your visit to Orana Wildlife Park. We value all customer feedback and appreciate you taking the time to provide your comments. Naturally, we are disappointed to hear the Park did not meet your expectations. We have a professional cleaning company clean our bathroom facilities every day and our team checks them through out the day so I apologies if you found them in an unkempt manner. January 3 was the busiest day our Park has seen in the last three years owing to a beautiful day, our boarders opening and the Christmas/NY period so our team were slammed. Our team ensure fresh foliage is put into our animals enclosures each day however, with the high temperatures we have been seeing this can look "dead" very quickly. With regards to our tortoise shells "pyramiding badly" I have spoken to our dedicated keepers to find out more about this. Our tortoise Blotchy and Stripy are 45yo, they come to us from less than ideal circumstances and sadly were fed cat food prior to coming to Orana. This resulted in a poor start to life because of their nutrient deficiencies which resulted in their scute growing rapidly causing the pyramiding to be quite prominent. Our team ensure they both have a healthy diet specific to their needs, this is adjusted throughout the seasons to meet their needs. Thank you again for your feedback.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review. We are delighted to hear you enjoyed your visit and feeding our precious animals. We were privileged to care for Auckland Zoo's orangutans while their new habitat was built, as this has opened they have gone back to Auckland where they are enjoying their new habitat and Melur recently had a baby - so worth a visit to see. As the water table in Canterbury changes unfortunately our moats are dropping which means we are unable to hold animals on them. We recently raised over $130,000 to put a new liner on our spider monkey moat so they could return to their island. as they other moats are much larger this would require a huge fundraising effort as 100% of projects are fundraised for. Thank you so much for visiting the Park, we hope to see you again.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review Star, we are delighted you and your family had a fun day out. Thank you for sharing your tips, our 12 presentations are certainly a highlight for many of our visitors and a great way for them to see our animals up close and to interact with our team.