Set amongst the woodland of Dorset lays 65 acres of sanctuary for over 250 primates. Monkey World was set up in 1987 by Jim Cronin MBE to provide abused Spanish beach chimpanzees with a permanent, stable home.

Today Monkey World works in conjunction with foreign governments from all over the world to stop the illegal smuggling of apes out of Africa and Asia. At the park visitors can see more than 250 rescued and endangered primates of 20 different species’

Monkey World is home to the largest group of chimpanzees outside of Africa, living in four different social groups. Many have been rescued from the black market pet trade, laboratories, and from abuse as tourist photographer props.

There are three groups of orang-utans at the park,  including two different species; Bornean and Sumatran. Monkey World is also home to Europe’s only Orang-utan Creche, where all orphaned or abandoned orang-utans in Europe will come to grow up.

There are five different species of gibbon at Monkey World; agile, lar, Mueller’s, siamang and golden-cheeked. Many were victims of the black market pet trade and at the park they have been rehabilitated to live naturally with other gibbons.

14 species of monkeys and prosimians at the park: capuchin monkeys, common marmosets, Geoffroy’s marmosets, cotton-top tamarins, patas monkeys, red-bellied guenons, ring-tailed lemurs, white-faced saki monkeys, slow loris, spider monkeys, squirrel monkeys, stump-tailed macaques, unknown marmosets and woolly monkeys.

• Coach only £30.00

• Entrance included = Adult £46.00, Senior (65+) £43.00, Child (3-15yrs) £43.00, Ch (under 3yrs) £30.00