The ledger
The figures every zone answers to.
The Red List is the spine of the master plan. These are the numbers we built against — and the numbers we hold the park accountable to, zone by zone, species by species.
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species threatened
on the IUCN Red List as of the 2024 update — more than a quarter of every species assessed.
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species assessed
the largest organised conservation ledger on Earth, and the spine of every species choice in the master plan.
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zones, one ledger
every zone in Grand Wildlife maps directly onto Red List categories — no signature species without a status.
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individuals, not exhibits
ambassador animals in the Conservation Center are named, biographed, and tied to a named field program.
Source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2024 summary statistics. Figures rounded down. Updated when the next annual summary lands.
Five commitments
The standard the master plan is held to.
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Rescue first
Every ambassador in the Conservation Center is a rescue. No animal in the park exists to fill a slot in a layout. The decision-tree starts with the individual life — habitat, history, prognosis — and the exhibit is built around what care that life requires.
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Named partnerships
Conservation here is not a logo wall. Each region of the master plan partners with a specific field organisation — by name, by program, by funding line — and routes a documented share of every donation, adoption, or partnership back to them.
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Transparent care
The Rescue & Care Wing is glass-walled on purpose. Veterinary work, dietary preparation, behavioural enrichment, end-of-life decisions — all happen in public sightline. The standard is: if it cannot be done in view of a guest, it should not be done in this park.
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Regional and global
The Native Pond in Zone 16 is deliberate counterweight to the Savannah, the Aviary, the Marine Realm. Conservation is not only an abroad concern; it begins at the gate. Every Grand Wildlife site, wherever it is built, would devote a working share of its footprint to the species that live in its own postcode.
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A path to act
Wonder without a next step is theatre. The Take Action Pavilion exists so that a guest who decides, mid-visit, that this matters can leave with a concrete way to make it matter — adoption, donation, volunteer programme, citizen-science cohort. Every digital surface here echoes the same standard.
In the park
The Conservation Center
is where the visit becomes a commitment.
Zone 16 is the in-park surface of everything stated above. Ambassador animals are introduced by name. The Rescue & Care Wing's working veterinary suite is on view. The Take Action Pavilion is a quiet room of named partnerships and named amounts, designed so a guest who has just decided to do something can do it in the same hour.
“Leave inspired. Make an impact.”