Largest elephant enclosure

The largest elephant enclosure (as opposed to African safari parks and suchlike) is Elephant Eden, at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, in Wraxall, Bristol, UK. Costing £2 million to create, work on it began in 2012. It now consists of 8 hectares (20 acres), and has the capacity to house up to 10 elephants at any one time. Elephants ideally require great expanses of territory, mirroring their natural habitat in the wild, yet all too often in captivity they are maintained in what is for them relatively small enclosures.

As noted on Noah's Ark Zoo Farm's official website: "Eden boasts extensive grazing areas, sand yards, mud wallows and a state-of-the-art heated elephant barn. The habitat offers a significant space for the elephants to explore, giving them the freedom to walk several kilometres a day. The vast enriched habitat has been labelled a “five star destination for elephants” by well-known international elephant management consultant Alan Roocroft due to the revolutionary design of the facility".