The Monts de Gueret animal park was created following a public initiative in 2001 and belongs to the Grand Gueret urban community.

The park is located in the central part of Chabrières forest, a few miles from the town of Gueret in the department of Creuse, France.

The park complex is built of wood in the style of a Gallic village; some rocks located within the park territory are decorated with wolves images in an ancient Celtic style, reflecting myths and legends of the past, where wolves are presented as beings, strongly connected to the world of the stars, planets and constellations.
The observatory built within the Park Circle also emphasizes this idea.

European grey wolves historically populated the forests of Creuse, but the last one died in 1937.

Now wolves inhabit the Chabrières forest again: 23 European grey wolves live in semi-freedom inside two forested enclosures covering a combined area of 11,000 m² (120,000 sq ft).

During the last years, the park extended the variety of wolves types, and smaller packs of ice white Mackenzie wolves, black Mackenzie wolves and white arctic wolves have been added to the population of the European grey wolves, the type most represented in the park.

2015 marked a new era for the animal park: new wolf packs of different types started to arrive, as well as new species of different animals, all of which will join the deers, roe deers, wild boars, badgers and foxes already living there.

Since it was opened in 2001 and up to the summer of 2015, the park has been visited by over half a million visitors.
In 2014, the number of visitors was 42,000, and it is estimated that the number will increase by 15% in 2015.

In 2013, one of the male grey wolves managed to escape from the park through a fence that had been cut open.
The Monts de Gueret animal park was created following a public initiative in 2001 and belongs to the Grand Gueret urban community.
The park is located in the central part of Chabrières forest, a few miles from the town of Gueret in the department of Creuse, France.
The park complex is built of wood in the style of a Gallic village; some rocks located within the park territory are decorated with wolves images in an ancient Celtic style, reflecting myths and legends of the past, where wolves are presented as beings, strongly connected to the world of the stars, planets and constellations. The observatory built within the Park Circle also emphasizes this idea.
European grey wolves historically populated the forests of Creuse, but the last one died in 1937.
Now wolves inhabit the Chabrières forest again: 23 European grey wolves live in semi-freedom inside two forested enclosures covering a combined area of 11,000 m² (120,000 sq ft).
During the last years, the park extended the variety of wolves types, and smaller packs of ice white Mackenzie wolves, black Mackenzie wolves and white arctic wolves have been added to the population of the European grey wolves, the type most represented in the park.
2015 marked a new era for the animal park: new wolf packs of different types started to arrive, as well as new species of different animals, all of which will join the deers, roe deers, wild boars, badgers and foxes already living there.
Since it was opened in 2001 and up to the summer of 2015, the park has been visited by over half a million visitors. In 2014, the number of visitors was 42,000, and it is estimated that the number will increase by 15% in 2015.
In 2013, one of the male grey wolves managed to escape from the park through a fence that had been cut open.
Monts de Gueret Animal Park