The Franklin Zoo & Wildlife Sanctuary is very grateful to the local community who provide browse for the elephant and bring many useful items for the care and wellbeing of the animals.
If you look around at home or at work, you might find lots of things you don’t want or need anymore that we could make good use of at the zoo. We would very much appreciate items to be donated to the zoo such as:
- paint
- buckets
- containers
- wire cutters
- a concrete mixer
- skil saw
- wire and netting
- wheel barrows, heavy duty tradesman’s type (for elephant waste)
- cordless drill & drill bits
- clean mulch (no mould) from safe trees (poplar, willow, gum)
- clean straw and hay
- ride-on lawnmower or motor mower
- water pumps for ponds
- clearlight plastic roofing
- perspex, decking timber
- certified organic fruit & vegetables
- heavy duty chain (for making elephant toys).
- Printer/copier/scanner – laser type, A4 & A3 for signage and notices
- tradesman’s type rakes, shovels, pitch forks
There may even be some things you have that we haven’t even thought of.
We can also use unsprayed trees to feed the elephant such as:
- Akeake / Hopbush
- Black Wattle
- Box Elder
- Common Ash
- Common Hazelnut
- Common Olive
- Coprosna
- Empress Tree
- Feijoa
- Golden Wych Elm
- Honey Locust
- Lemonwood / Tarata
- London Plane
- Pohutakawa / NZ Christmas Tree
- Photinia species
- Poplar species
- Silver Birch
- Sweet Chestnut
- Sweet Gum
- Tasmanian Blackwood
- Tree Lucerne
- Twiggy Tree Daisy
- White Mulberry
- Willow species
Please speak to one of our keepers, or check the list hanging in the entrance.
Thank you.
