Qualla: Curraghs Wildlife Park https://qualla.com/curraghs-wildlife-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Curraghs Wildlife Park https://qualla.com/curraghs-wildlife-park Curraghs Wildlife Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/curraghs-wildlife-park/ Sometime in the 1960s, red-necked wallabies climbed out of their enclosure at Curraghs Wildlife Park, found that the Isle of Man's wetlands and woodlands suited them tolerably well, and quietly established a feral population. The wallabies are still there - bounding through the Curragh bogs and the surrounding fields, photographed by surprised tourists, a small marsupial colony in the Irish Sea. They are not native to anywhere in Europe. They are descendants of escapees from a park that itself sits on a wetland of international ecological importance.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/curraghs-wildlife-park-wp/gcsv-curraghs-wildlife-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Curraghs Wildlife Park: A Park in the Wetland https://qualla.com/curraghs-wildlife-park/ Curraghs Wildlife Park occupies a corner of the Ballaugh Curraghs - an area of low wet ground in the north-west of the Isle of Man designated as a Ramsar site under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance. The park was founded in 1963 under the Curraghs Acquisition...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/curraghs-wildlife-park-wp/gcsv-curraghs-wildlife-park-a-park-in-the-wetland.mp3 0:06 2 full Curraghs Wildlife Park: Education, Recognition, Conservation https://qualla.com/curraghs-wildlife-park/ In 2005, the park hosted the annual meeting of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) as part of its 40th-anniversary celebrations. Four years later, in 2009, BIAZA presented the park with its Small Collection award for "Best Education Project with school...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/curraghs-wildlife-park-wp/gcsv-curraghs-wildlife-park-education-recognition-conservation.mp3 0:06 3 full Curraghs Wildlife Park: Escapes https://qualla.com/curraghs-wildlife-park/ Curraghs has a long history of animals leaving without permission. The 1960s wallabies are the most famous: they have widely established themselves ferally across the island and are now part of the wildlife visitors hope to glimpse on country drives. Around 1995, red-winged laugh...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/v/curraghs-wildlife-park-wp/gcsv-curraghs-wildlife-park-escapes.mp3 0:06 4 full Curraghs Wildlife Park: Orry, the Lemurs, and Living Collection https://qualla.com/curraghs-wildlife-park/ The most painful of the park's stories belongs to Orry, a sea lion born here in 1992. In 1994 he was sold to a dealer who in turn sold him to a travelling circus in Belgium. He was eventually rescued and given to Dudley Zoo in the English Midlands, where he died in 2014. The whol...

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