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Our programme will allow them to learn from experts while getting up close to the best teachers of all – the meerkats themselves. “Many of the children who visit the hospital care passionately about nature and the environment. The meerkat enclosure will replicate their natural habitat and zookeepers from Edinburgh Zoo will care for them and provide meerkat educational sessions while on site.ĬEO of ECHC, Roslyn Neely, said: “Some children are too unwell or have been in hospital for so long that they don’t have the opportunity to engage with the outdoors, or interact with animals. READ MORE: Edinburgh Zoo granted permission to build new zebra enclosure by council
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Thanks to a partnership between Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity (ECHC), NHS Lothian and RZSS, the inquisitive creatures, who will move in by next year, will give young patients, particularly those staying long term, the opportunity to learn all about nature and the environment.Įdinburgh Zoo currently delivers a weekly programme of educational activities at the RHCYP, including projects on penguins, pandas and tigers, all of which encourage children to think about their place in the world and the importance of wildlife within it. A first-of-its-kind programme in Europe has seen an Edinburgh children's hospital team up with the city's zoo to create a unique enclosure based on-site for them to learn all about animals.Ĭhildren at NHS Lothian’s Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP) will soon be learning important conservation lessons from some very unusual teachers - a mob of meerkats based in the outdoor classroom within the hospital grounds.
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