Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs is a 73.4 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dunstable in Bedfordshire. It was notified in 1987 under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and part of it is owned by the National Trust. Dunstable Downs is the highest point in the east of England, and it has five thousand year old burial mounds and a medieval rabbit warren. The site is a 3 kilometre long steep escarpment between
Whipsnade Zoo female named Kia. The four younger lions are the offspring of Spike and Mashaka-Lia, and were born in April 2006. Formerly the zoo's Dolphin Pool, Sea Lion Splash is a daily demonstration in which the zoo's three trained California sea lions (two females named Bailey and Lara, and a male named Dom) perform tricks and stunts in their pool (referred to as the 'Splash Zone').In June 2015, Dom and Bailey gave birth to a male sea lion called Oscar. ZSL Whipsnade Zoo keeps a herd of nine Asian elephants, consisting of bull Emmett, cows Mya, Lucha, Kaylee, Karishma and Azizah,