The Highland Wildlife Park was opened in 1972 and has been run by the
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (which also operates the
Edinburgh Zoo) since 1986. With the exception of Christmas Day, the park is open every day of the year, weather permitting. and the first hatching of a
satyr tragopan for the park. Summer 2014 saw the start of construction of a new enclosure for a sourced female polar bear that will be arriving at the park in spring 2015. It was confirmed in October 2014 that
snow leopards and
Amur leopards would arrive at the park in 2015. The last bharal and Japanese serow left the collection in 2014. 2015 saw the arrival of a female polar bear from the
Aalborg Zoo in Denmark, kept in a specially-built enclosure behind the muskoxen, where there is a sub enclosure for a male that has been introduced to her. In 2018 a resulting polar bear cub was born at the wildlife park. The park's first snow leopards have arrived from Marwell and Krefeld zoos and have been released into a cliff face enclosure, next to the markhor. April 2016 saw the first birth at the park and in Scotland of twin wolverine kits. 2016 also saw the last of the kiang herd transferred to the
Knowsley Safari Park. A male reindeer was born in June and the park has welcomed its first Amur leopard, housed in an offshow breeding unit, located at the rear of the park. The offshow pair of Amur leopards produced a pair of twins in summer 2018. The first polar bear to be born in the UK for 25 years arrived at the end of 2017. The week before Christmas, the female polar bear, Victoria gave birth to a male to be called Hamish. The park also had their first common crane and snow leopards born in 2019. ==Attractions==