Scotland’s Biggest Outdoor Art Event ‘Jungle City’ Unveiled in Edinburgh

Elephant Family, the world’s leading Asian elephant conservation charity, is teaming up with Britain’s leading conservation charities and art luminaries to launch ‘Jungle City’, Scotland’s biggest outdoor art event on record. The event will feature 120+ life size sculptures of some of the planet’s most endangered species and aims to raise £1m for their survival. The first creations will be unveiled on Tuesday 19th April, with an array of stunningly eye catching tigers, orangutans, hornbills, crocodiles and elephants parading down Royal Circus.

The animals, destined to become highly collectible works of art, will grace The Royal Botanical Gardens from mid August before being unleashed onto the streets of Edinburgh throughout September. The exhibition will see Scotland’s capital become obsessed with finding every last creature with open-top safari jeeps on hand to help tourists and residents spot the wildlife. For 6 glorious weeks, Edinburgh will be transformed into a jungle with park benches, fountains, pavements and traffic lights becoming perches, watering holes, hunting and grazing grounds.

The exhibition has already attracted the backing of HRH The Prince of Wales, Goldie Hawn, Jack Vettriano, Professor Gordon Murray, Sir Brian Ivory, Geri Halliwell and Sir Jackie Stewart. Sir Jackie’s son, Mark, comments: “Desperation breeds innovation and this event is exactly what the world’s endangered animals need: mass awareness and a way of raising serious funds. As a Trustee of Elephant Family and being Scottish I am doubly proud that Scotland has put its support behind Jungle City, It is crucial for people are reminded that we share this world with these magnificent animals. This colourful project is a great way to recapture that attention”

HRH Prince of Wales comments: “This remarkable initiative aims to help alleviate the crisis facing so many species on our planet today ... Your generous support of Elephant Family and Jungle City in Edinburgh will quite simply make all the difference so I can only urge you to support this innovative campaign in any way you can”

100% of proceeds will be channelled into buying strategic habitat, which is the only real way to save the endangered Asian elephant, along with all the other animals who share the same habitat - hornbills, crocodiles, orangutans and tigers - from extinction. The sculptures will be sold at a glittering auction event on 29th September in Edinburgh.