Environmental Policy
Woburn Safari Park recognises that its daily activities impact on the environment, with the most significant effects resulting from waste production and disposal, energy consumption and water usage. Woburn Safari Park is committed to managing activities and operations to minimise the environmental impact of its activities. The scope of this policy includes all of the products, services and activities of Woburn Safari Park.
Woburn Safari Park is committed to:
- Continually improving its environmental performance in relation to its activities, products and services.
- Complying with current and future legislation related to the environment and its protection alongside other Zoo industry standards.
- Preventing pollution and monitoring and reducing adverse impacts of its operations and activities on the environment.
- Reducing energy consumption through introducing energy efficient lighting, heating and equipment where practicable and incorporating energy efficiency measures, where possible, into any new building designs.
- Reducing the amount of waste disposed to landfill by adopting the waste hierarchy.
- Training staff to increase their awareness of environmental issues relevant to the company to encourage their effective management of environmental impacts.
- Developing interpretation to provide visitors with the opportunity to further their understanding of environmental issues.
- Continually investigating more environmentally sound methods of animal waste and other waste disposal.
- Reducing water usage, some through the re-use of some of the waste water produced, and through the recirculation of water around the grounds.
- Increasingly using fair trade suppliers.
- Maintaining regular contact with Government Environment and Energy help lines to ensure up to date advice to continually enhance our environment work at Woburn Safari Park.
To meet these commitments, Woburn Safari Park is developing and implementing an environmental management system BS8555 and will set objectives and targets each year to show continuous environmental improvement.
This policy is communicated to all staff members and it is displayed on all notice boards. The policy will be reviewed annually.