Twycross Zoo extends ASSA CLIQ® Remote to new £3.5 million Chimpanzee Eden facility
The award-winning conservation charity Twycross Zoo has extended its ASSA CLIQ® Remote system, to help manage safety and security at the site’s new £3.5 million Chimpanzee Eden facility.
The new multi-storey habitat has been designed to replicate a wild environment, providing outstanding facilities for animal welfare, research, education and visitors. Covering 1,160 square metres, ASSA CLIQ® Remote has been selected to help control who can access the three-storey building, providing a full audit trail for assured peace of mind.
Based in Atherstone, Warwickshire, Twycross Zoo has worked closely with installer Rossells Locksmiths since 2016, when the ASSA CLIQ® Remote system was specified for the zoo’s Gibbon Forest habitat. Its success over the past few years ensured it was the logical choice when considering how the zoo’s cutting-edge new chimpanzee development would be secured.
The system has also recently been extended to a new tiger habitat at the zoo, housing two critically endangered Sumatran tigers, named Jahly and Sialang. These will live in a new state-of-the-art, multi-million pound habitat, which – at 3,000 m2 – is one of the largest purpose-built Sumatran tiger habitats in the UK.
Neil Dorman, Curator – Conservation Programmes and Planning at Twycross Zoo, explains: “With more than 500,000 people visiting the zoo every year, security and safety is of paramount importance. We were so pleased with the level of security and peace of mind that ASSA CLIQ® Remote has provided in our Gibbon Forest, it was an easy decision to choose to extend the system to our new Chimpanzee Eden facility and Sumatran tiger development.”