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Our New Project: The Purr-Fect Home for Big Cats.

In the wild, a Mountain Lion’s home range may cover 10 square miles or more. We can’t give our two Lions quite that much space, but we’d like to enlarge what they have. We’re not sure yet how much their new habitat will cost, but it’s probably upwards of $50,000. A lot of money, but that’s why we’re starting early. Planning and design will begin this year, and we hope to start building next year.

Once the Lion’s new home is done, the plan is to move our Lynxes into the old Lion home. That will give the Lynxes a lot more space, and a much more natural habitat.

But that’s not all! When the Lynxes move out, the Bobcats will move from their present home to the Lynx enclosure—which gives the Bobcats more space, too!
Our cats will get three new habitats for the price of one. What a bargain!

Please help make it possible, with a secure gift to the Friends. Thank you!

The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray is owned and operated by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife—and proudly supported by the Friends.

Join the Friends and Make a Difference at the Maine Wildlife Park!

 

Volunteer tends park flowerbeds.

 

Our work-and-play-place is wonderful, full of wild animals and friendly people from all over the world. Our mission is to help the Maine Wildlife Park become an even more inviting, intriguing and informative place. You can find out more about the Park here.

To accomplish that, we’re fundraisers; gardeners; tour guides; storytellers; gatekeepers; candy-store proprietors; gofers; parking-lot attendants; sources of information about the wildlife that lives here; and much more.

We’re proud to say that we’ve been a major part of the Park’s impressive growth. More than 100,000 people came to visit last summer, and much of what they saw was due to our efforts. But there’s a lot more to do, and to do it we need more Friends. We hope you’ll think about joining with us!

One of the main purposes of the Park is to educate visitors about the wildlife of Maine. Children especially need to understand how the animals live and why they’re important in our own lives. The Friends give hundreds of hours each season to help make that learning possible—and fun. What a great feeling it gives us! The same feeling you’ll get when you support the birds and animals who live here.

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