Banham Zoo is a 50-acre (20 ha) zoo in Banham, Norfolk, England. The zoo, which is home to over 2,000 animals, opened to the public in 1968, became a charity in 2013, and has since been often awarded the prize of Norfolk’s Top Attraction, by numerous different organisations, with an annual visitor attendance of in excess of 200,000 people. It is part of the Zoological Society of East Anglia, a registered charity which also owns Africa Alive! near Lowestoft, Suffolk.
The Banham Zoo started as a collection of pheasants and parrots, and opened to the public in 1968. In 1971, it acquired a colony of woolly monkeys and became the “Banham Zoo and Woolly Monkey Sanctuary”. Today, it has acquired a much larger collection of animals, but still retains one of the best collections of smaller monkeys in Europe