Music meets mammal with the launch of Zoo Thousand,

The newest addition to the festival circuit set in the stunning Kent countryside Taking place at the beautiful Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in The Garden of England, July 2008 sees the debut of the Zoo Thousand music festival where over 100 top live acts, bands and DJs will perform beside the park’s mix of ferocious, fearsome and friendly animals.
Catering for a range of musical tastes, Zoo Thousand and Eight (ZOO8) will feature indie, dance, UK hip-hop, drum and bass as well as the more family-friendly chart sounds.

The festival will accommodate 20,000 revellers and camping is onsite, meaning that it will be among the largest music festivals in the South East. And keeping in mind its location, ZOO8 will be one of the greener festivals on the calendar.

Port Lympne Wild Animal Park is run by registered charity The Aspinall Foundation and every ticket sold will include a donation to the Foundation to help pay for the upkeep of the animals and their enclosures. A car-sharing scheme will be in place to minimise the number of visitors arriving by vehicle, and there will be a tree-planting initiative to take part in. While the animals will be kept at a safe distance from the crowds and artists in the 600-acre site, festival-goers will be able to visit the Animal Park which is home to The Palace of the Apes, the biggest gorillarium in the world and the largest breeding herd of black rhino outside Africa as well as Siberian and Indian tigers, African elephants and many endangered species besides.
There will even be the opportunity to take the African Experience Safari, where giraffes, rhinos, wildebeest, ostrich antelope roam free.

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