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LEFT: Try a Land Rover safari and experience the wildlife of Africa. TOP RIGHT: At Ree Park Safari you will meet Denmark's only cheetahs.
they can. A good example is a company that has recently offered to provide drones to monitor poachers, something the park highly welcomes, as poaching is a growing problem for endangered animals. The poachers’ hunt for rhinos’ horns has, for example, increased rapidly, as the horns’ value is currently higher than gold. If you are not part of an organisation providing help and support for the programme in Africa you can still contribute when visiting the park with your family. Ree Park Safari is looking to open people’s eyes to the importance of nature preservation. When you go through the park, either by foot on a “walking safari” or on a “guided safari” in one of the park’s Land Rovers, you are provided with wildlife information, for instance that merely an estimated 3,000 black rhinos are left in the world, and that they might be extinct in only a decade’s time if nothing is done to stop the poaching. “A kind of Noah’s Ark” If at some point the endangered species become extinct in Africa, at least you can see them in Ree Park Safari. The park likes to consider itself a “kind of Noah’s Ark”, as Stagegaard states. And not only can you experience the amazing speed of a cheetah, and realize how big a giraffe’s head really is; there are lots of other things to do for both children and adults. Enjoy a dinner at one of the restaurants, see the animals being fed (outside a cage), or stay for a night in a tent on the Danish savannah. Stagegaard explains: “The animals change behaviour after hours – they come up so close that you can smell them and you can then try to fall asleep listening to the wolves’ and lion’s roar.”
For more information, please visit: www.reepark.dk
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