The centre was established in 2009 by the naturalist Derek Gow and is an utterly unique facility. Based on his experience of enclosure design for the New Forest Nature Quest project and the Wildwood Centre near Canterbury Derek has drawn on over 16 years of experience with wildlife film makers and photographers to create a series of purpose built photographic and film sets for British Mammals. A splendid collection of captive mammals has already been resourced for the project and this will be further developed in time to afford an unparalleled opportunity to film or photograph the broadest range of subjects with relative ease.  The wildlife photography centre is set in the beautiful landscape of the River Tamar valley near the town of Launceston on the Devon / Cornwall border. Natural wildlife is abundant in the region with well established populations of red and roe deer, badgers, foxes and otters. Barn owls and ravens are common together with a range of smaller bird species such as meadow pipits, goldfinches, linnets and yellowhammers.  There is a broad butterfly compliment and the ancient hedge banks in spring offer delightful displays of wildflowers. As well as this stunning natural scenery there are excellent pubs offering a good range of real Ales and locally sourced food. There is a wide variety of local accommodation available from homely farmhouse bed and breakfasts to high quality hotels or idyllic caravan sites.   Welcome to the Westcountry Wildlife Photography Centre and Westcountry Wildlife Safaris WestCountry Centre