The Franklin Zoo & Wildlife Sanctuary is very grateful to the local community and it’s many dedicated volunteers and supporters who provide browse for the elephant, provide their services and bring many useful items for the care and wellbeing of the animals.
We need donations to the Franklin Zoo Charitable Trust to maintain care for the animals and upgrades of enclosures. If you or your company would like to sponsor an animal or contribute to the Trust’s care for them, you can donate to the Trust through this web site, by mail or by direct credit – see Donations section of this web site for details.
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:
- Data projector for our education centre
- paint
- buckets
- wire cutters
- a concrete mixer
- tools
- skil saw
- wire and netting
- wheel barrows, heavy duty tradesman’s type (for elephant waste)
- high powered cordless drill & drill bits
- clean mulch (no mould) from safe trees (poplar, willow, gum)
- clean straw and hay
- water pumps for ponds
- submersible pump to remove excess water from elephant sand pit
- clearlight plastic roofing
- perspex, decking timber
- certified organic fruit & vegetables
- heavy duty chain (for making elephant toys).
- tradesman’s type rakes, shovels, pitch forks
- plumbing work and materials
- electrical work and materials
- welding work and materials
- carpentry and fencing work and materials
- towels for the vet room
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:
- Bamboo
- Box Elder
- Coprosma
- Empress Tree (Phoenix palm)
- Feijoa
- Golden Wych Elm
- Honey Locust
- Lemonwood / Tarata
- Pohutakawa / NZ Christmas Tree
- Photinia species
- Tree Lucerne
- White Mulberry
- Willow species
Please speak to one of our keepers, or ask for a browse list. Any queries, call 09 236 8686 or email us at info@franklinzoo.co.nz
Thank you to all those kind and generous people who donate useful items to help the sanctuary animals and work done here by many volunteers.
