Planning permission for change of use from agricultural land to a zoo was granted in 1988, with the park being opened on 15 June 1990 by local MP, then-Chancellor, and future Prime Minister John Major.

[5] An application for two 50 kW turbines was turned down in August 2015 by Huntingdonshire District Council.

[6] The zoo has a conservation sanctuary[7] which has a collection of nearly 100 different species including rare / endangered animals and birds.

[8] The park was evacuated on the morning of 29 May 2017 after what was described as a 'serious incident'.

It was later confirmed that zookeeper Rosa King, age 33, had been killed in the tiger enclosure at about 11:15 a.m. that day.