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After a long career with some of the nation\u2019s most famous zoos, Rick Barongi \u201974 realized his vision for a conservation park in Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Lindsay Lennon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was January 2022, and an 11-second video that had just hit TikTok was about to be a game-changer for Rick Barongi \u201974. Posted by a Texas tourism account, it was shot in the Giraffe Suite of Longneck Manor<\/a>, the 100-acre nonprofit conservation park and guest facility that Barongi had opened several months earlier in pastoral Fredericksburg\u2014a tiny city steeped in German heritage at the heart of the state\u2019s burgeoning wine country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine a place in Texas where you can wake up with giraffes and rhinos outside your door?\u201d said the description of the video<\/a>, which has received more than 3 million likes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The famed Giraffe Suite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As the TikTok hinted, the suite boasts picture windows overlooking giraffes from every room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The luxurious, safari-themed space is housed on the second level of a 10,000-square-foot giraffe barn, and equipped with its own climate control and air purification systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s even a small door in the wall to offer snacks (under the watchful eye of staff), and guests can take supervised strolls on a catwalk for even more face time with the residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine a place in Texas where you can wake up with giraffes and rhinos outside your door?<\/p>\nTexas Travel <\/strong>via TikTok<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur phone started ringing off the hook,\u201d Barongi says of reaction to the video, still in awe more than a year later. \u201cWe booked out every night for the whole year within two or three days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The suite remains reserved through 2024, and additional villas opened this year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Longneck\u2019s rhinos include Justin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Barongi founded Longneck Manor as a niche destination\u2014both for tourists (it\u2019s an easy day trip from Austin or San Antonio) and diehard giraffe enthusiasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After spending nearly half a century at some of the country\u2019s most notable animal attractions, including Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom and the San Diego Zoo, he\u2019d long craved the opportunity to give visitors a more bespoke experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before embarking on Longneck, Barongi\u2014who holds a master\u2019s in zoology from Rutgers\u2014spent 15 years as director of the Houston Zoo, until his retirement in 2015. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He sits on several wildlife conservation boards, including the International Rhino Foundation, and has traveled to Africa more than 50 times, both on conservation missions and photography safaris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After working in various positions for the San Diego Zoo, Barongi spent most of the \u201990s as director of animal programs for the Walt Disney Company, where he helped lead the design and construction of Animal Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The job sparked an enduring friendship with famed conservationist Jane Goodall, who consulted on the park\u2019s development.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With \u201cSafari Mickey\u201d atop the Tree of Life during construction of Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom, which opened in 1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barongi also spearheaded creation of the Disney Conservation Fund, which the company says has directed more than $120 million in grant funding and other support for wildlife protection efforts since 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese big zoos are very good facilities\u2014but they have thousands of people visiting every day,\u201d says Barongi. \u201cI always thought, when I got older, I\u2019d do something much more intensive, immersive, personalized, exclusive\u2014where I can really reach people.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors to Longneck Manor receive private tours that include encounters with all its residents: the tower of giraffes (the proper term for a group of them) as well as rhinos, a pair of yellow Labs, and the newest arrival, a two-toed sloth named Bruno. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since the park is now fully staffed, Barongi doesn\u2019t lead as many tours as he used to. But he still enjoys sharing stories with visitors, whether of the animals or his trips to Africa\u2014a place he calls \u201ca second home.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He still travels there regularly\u2014including a 70th birthday climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro with buddy Bill Konstant \u201974, who chronicled the journey<\/a> <\/em>for Cornellians<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(They were a day from the summit when his eldest female giraffe, Betty White, gave birth; the staff named the baby girl Kilimanjaro, or Kili for short.)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Bruno, Longneck\u2019s newest addition.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As a child on Long Island, Barongi says, he was always fascinated with Africa, and relished visits to the Bronx Zoo and Manhattan\u2019s Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although he was on a pre-vet path as a life sciences major in CALS, a five-month trip volunteering with a field veterinarian in East Africa prompted him to shift gears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI realized I didn\u2019t really want to be a vet,\u201d he recalls, \u201cbut I wanted to work with wild animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marking his 70th atop Kilimanjaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barongi stresses that Longneck is \u201cbuilt on a conservation mission\u201d\u2014to save threatened giraffes and endangered rhinos in the wild, as well as to provide optimal care for its own residents, who come from other zoos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022 alone, Barongi says, the Longneck Manor Conservation Foundation awarded $100,000 to support such efforts around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barongi stresses that Longneck is \u201cbuilt on a conservation mission.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we can\u2019t save animals in the wild, there\u2019s no sense putting them on display in zoos; I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right,\u201d says Barongi. \u201cWe\u2019re making money so we can improve our facilities and the care of our animals, and any excess goes into saving their habitats, so those animals can thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Goodall herself wrote in a letter of support for Longneck in 2021: \u201cRick\u2019s new endeavour will adhere to the highest standards of animal welfare and conservation, while inspiring hope for the future for all species.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barongi and Goodall visit a sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in West Africa in 2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But, as Barongi\u2014who spends much of the year living in a house he built on the Longneck property\u2014admits with a smile, he also had an ulterior motive for founding the conservation park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to wake up in the morning, look out my window,\u201d he says, \u201cand see giraffes and rhinos in my backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All images provided.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published June 7, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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