Happy 19th Birthday Trentham Monkey Forest: Submit your images to be a part of our 20th year Monkey Mosaic in 2025
19 years ago, on July 19th 2005, Trentham Monkey Forest opened its doors for the very first time.
To be so close to the 20-year mark is a feat we’re incredibly proud of and here’s why!
– Each year, all-year-round, 140 monkeys inhabit this 60-acre Staffordshire woodland in conditions incredibly similar to that of their native lands of the mountainous regions in Algeria & Morocco. Due to this environment, the monkey’s wide spectrum of natural behaviours are preserved and guests to the park quickly become enamoured with the magical charm of Barbary macaques living their best monkey life – with next to no interference from us.
– Since 2005, over 100 baby Barbary macaques have been born here in Trentham! That’s 100 amazing beginnings and most importantly, vital additions to a decreasing number due to their endangered status in the wild.
– Due to how the monkeys live, it provides an excellent opportunity for primatology research. Research is vital in improving knowledge for conservation projects
– In this short space of time at Trentham Monkey Forest, over 70 research projects have been conducted here in our woodland, including 1 from the renowned Yale University institution in the USA
We were the final part of the conservation jigsaw first pioneered in Kintzeim, France in 1969 by two passionate nature enthusiasts named Gilbert De Turckeim and Jacques Renaud 
Their objective was to allow a species of monkey to live in relative freedom with similar conditions to the wild and share their fascination with the primate’s wide repertoire of behaviours with visitors to the area
Not just researchers from afar come and visit our monkeys, but our general visitors do. Guests from all over the UK come and observe our monkeys in this phenomenal setting.
This time next year, we’ll be turning 20 and we want to share this moment with you, our supportive visitors, over the last two decades.
In 2025, we’ll be compiling hundreds of pictures taken at Monkey Forest to celebrate our 20th Anniversary and turning them into a breathtaking monkey face mosaic.
If you wish for your picture (from a visit in the past to Monkey Forest) to feature in the Barbary macaque 20th-year face mosaic, please submit your picture to info@monkey-forest.com.
(Please ensure the pictures are good quality)
Here’s to celebrating 19 years with a look ahead to our 20th Anniversary next year and thank you for supporting Trentham Monkey Forest & Barbary macaques