A man was seriously injured on Saturday after entering a tiger enclosure at a wildlife park in northern England, police said.
The incident happened at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, near the town of Doncaster, at around 1.35pm, South Yorkshire Police said in a statement. The tigers remained inside the enclosure and there was no danger to the general public, law enforcement said.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service said it sent two ambulances, an air ambulance and a doctor to the scene. Authorities did not immediately release information about the victim’s injuries.
“We are working closely with authorities to determine exactly what happened,” the wildlife park said in a statement on its website.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park began operations in 2009, with its Tiger Land attraction opening in 2011.
The attraction is a two-acre reserve specially designed for Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, an endangered species. The enclosure includes a 1,000-foot elevated walkway that allows visitors to watch big cats wander through woods and meadows or play in a pool with a waterfall, the park says on its website.
Visitors to several zoos and wildlife parks around the world have attempted to enter the tiger enclosures. A woman was caught in 2024 jumping over a fence and taunting a tiger at the Cohanzick Zoo in New Jersey. In 2016, a zookeeper was fatally attacked by a Malayan tiger at a Florida zoo when she entered the tigers’ night-house enclosure, a medical examiner’s investigation found.
A few years earlier, in 2012, a man jumped from an area near the Bronx Zoo monorail, over two fences, including one electrified, in a single leap to enter the tiger enclosure, police said. He was seriously injured in what appeared to be a suicide attempt, police said.
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