Conservation Station is the setting of Rafiki's Planet Watch in Disney's Animal Kingdom, an attraction tying into Kilimanjaro Safaris.
Description[]
Conservation Station is an ecological base located in East-Africa. The station is located along the Eastern Star Railway, somewhere outside port of Harambe.
Features[]
- Affection Section: This was an outdoors petting-zoo.
- Habitat Habitat!: This was an interior area which held small primates.
- Station:
History[]
Background[]
The station was started by around the 1990s. The station had some connection to Rafiki, a wise and mystic mandrill who served as Royal Mjuzi of the Pride Lands. The station seemingly worked with the Walt Disney Company and Wilderness Explorers to aid animals and nature. A routine passage from Harambe to the station would be established known as the, "Wildlife Express".
Development history[]
Appearances[]
Adventurers Outpost[]
A bulletin board in the outpost has Adventurers Outpost field-notes on the station.[1]
Rafiki's Planet Watch[]
The Conservation Station is setting of this attraction and is referenced in the train station.
Trivia[]
- The character Grandmother Willow from the controversial Disney film Pocahontas (1995) makes a cameo int he station's artwork. This might be a tribute to the defunct show Pocahontas and her Forest Friends which ran in Disney's Animal Kingdom.
- Rafiki has also been connected to Jungle Cruise properties via Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom where he rode a Jungle River Boat with Merlin.
- This attraction has served as a meet 'n' greet location for Rafiki, Jiminy Cricket, Pocahontas, Chip & Dale.
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