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Win family tickets to Howletts Wild Animal Park in Bekesbourne, plus a rhino encounter for the whole group

10:00, 02 August 2024

updated: 10:28, 02 August 2024

Spend the day at one of Kent’s biggest wildlife parks with this fantastic family prize.

Howletts Wild Animal Park in Bekesbourne, near Canterbury, is in the middle of its Wild Summer, a six-week event showcasing different species throughout the school holidays - and we’re giving one lucky winner a chance to join in the fun with family tickets to the park.

It’s Rhino Week at Howletts Wild Animal Park and, to celebrate, we’re giving away tickets and a rhino encounter. Picture: Howletts
It’s Rhino Week at Howletts Wild Animal Park and, to celebrate, we’re giving away tickets and a rhino encounter. Picture: Howletts

From Monday, August 5 to Sunday, August 11 it’s Rhino Week and, to celebrate, we’re also giving our winner an up-close-and-personal experience with the park’s amazing rhinos.

As well as entry to the park, which covers 90 acres and is home to 390 animals, you can also meet, feed and even stroke one of Howletts’ Eastern Black Rhinos.

To be in with a chance of winning, click here.

One of the black rhinos from Port Lympne that has been returned to the wild. Picture: Aspinall Foundation
One of the black rhinos from Port Lympne that has been returned to the wild. Picture: Aspinall Foundation

During Rhino Week, there will also be a themed activity trail, free animal feeds, talks from the experts, face painting and mask-making stations.

It’s also a great opportunity to find out more about the Aspinall Foundation, Howletts’ charity partner, who have reintroduced eight black rhinos to the wild from Howletts and its sister park Port Lympne Hotel and Reserve in Hythe.

The rhinos, three of which were rewilded in South Africa and a further five in Tanzania, have now integrated into the local populations and produced more than 60 descendants between them.

With approximately only 5,000 black rhinos left in the wild, the reintroduction of these animals to their natural habitat is a huge success.

The Aspinall Foundation also returned a male Sumatran rhino to the wild in 1998 and, more recently, has helped to safely remove the horns from rhinos in South Africa’s Loskop Dam Nature Reserve to reduce the risk of poaching.

If you want to visit Howletts and find out more about the rhinos, you can take advantage of the park’s new summer ticket value bundle offer that gives visitors great savings on group tickets.

You can book tickets to visit Howletts online here.

The park is open daily from 9.30am to 6pm during the school holidays.

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