Who are we?
The Bug Parc is a unique specialist privately owned invertebrate zoo which aims to champion the lives and needs of our much maligned invertebrate life, without which humankind would suffer greatly.
Impact
The area we are developing is a free to visit site at the front of our zoo which will be designed to help everyone become a small part of a conservation effort to save our UK insect life by showing them how they can create mini habitats that will benefit our indigenous minibeasts, enabling their numbers start to recover. Because our award winning zoo is visited by members of the public from all over the UK and from abroad, the simple conservation messages we are teaching can be applied in every home, large or small, across the UK and beyond.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We are a unique privately funded invertebrate zoo, built just two years ago. The zoo was built during the Covid pandemic, which caused immeasurable financial hardship and which resulted in many of the conservation works not being completed. These conservation works are being built in a free to visit area on our site and are an important way of teaching visitors how they can play their own part in conserving our own diminishing, struggling invertebrate life. Funding such projects has proved to be impossible whilst we are trying to establish the invertebrate zoo with limited resources.
How we’ll spend the money raised
We will create an educational site in a free to enter area within our carparking site which will incorporate a beetle loggery to attract our diminishing stag beetle populations, a series of large insect hotels to house a variety of different UK insect species, specialist overwintering housing structures for our lacewings, butterflies and ladybirds as well as a small wildflower meadow for our pollinators. All will be accompanied by professional signage explaining the need for such conservation measures as well helpful insights as to how what is seen can be reproduced in our visitors own gardens. Monies received will be spent on labour, heavy machinery to clear the site, paving and signage.