Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo is a zoological garden in Oakland, California.
The zoo was founded in 1922 by Henry A. Snow since 1939 in Knowland Park, located around a 212 -acre site in the southeast of Oakland. It is home to more than 440 native and exotic species, the Zoo is committed to a traditional natural attitude. A special attraction of the zoo is completed in 2005, " Valley Children's Zoo ", a facility for children whose construction is also the largest renovation and expansion project in the history of the zoo.
Farms, the zoo since 1982 by the East Bay Zoological Society, a non-profit organization based in Oakland.
History
Founding and first years
The naturalist, big game hunter and collector Henry A. Snow founded the zoo in 1922. First site was the area between 19th Street and Harrison Street in Downtown Oakland, now Oakland's business district.
In support of the zoo founded Henry A. Snow's son Sidney in 1936, the Alameda County Botanical and Zoological Society, a forerunner of today's operating company East Bay Zoological Society.
After the zoo had repeatedly changed his location, he moved into its present quarters in 1939. This area was converted in April 1948 under Joseph P. Knowland, the former chairman of the California State Park Commission in a State Park. In 1950, finally, the park in honor Knowland in Joseph Knowland State Arboretum and Park ( " Knowland Park " mostly short) has been renamed.
First phase of expansion and turning point in 1982
Under the leadership of William Penn Mott Jr., the former managing director of City Parks Commission, the zoo has been improved and expanded between 1957 until 1961. The first major construction project was the construction of a new elephant house for the former sum of $ 15,000. In 1965, the current conducted by Lutz rest " Baby Zoo " and the landscape "African Veldt " to 1975 the landscape "Australian Outback " and in 1980 a plant for Tiger.
In 1982, the city of Oakland East Bay Zoological Society handed over the management of the zoo. As the first Director William Penn Mott Jr. was used, which ushered in a new phase of growth and structural transformation. Penn Mott drew up a general plan for the Zoo, presented a Deputy Director, a, mandated the establishment of a fully equipped veterinary station and made numerous renovations at the zoo and the park grounds make.
The years 1985-2005
In 1985, Joel J. Parrott, the former deputy director of the Penn Mott successor was appointed. This set a six-stage development and expansion plan for the next 20 years.
In 1987, the " Oakland Zoo 's Education Department " was created as an educational institution for student and other groups of visitors. In the same year the construction of a new plant for Mantelpaviane was completed two years later of a facility for chimpanzees. 1989, a new elephant enclosure was inaugurated. This attachment named " Mahali Pa Tempo" ( Swahili for "place of elephants ") was designed spatially larger and modeled on the natural habitat of elephants.
In the years 1991 and 1992, followed by new plants for Gibbons ( " Gibbon Iceland " ) and lions ( " Simba Pori ," Swahili for "Land of the lion "). 1996, a plant for sun bears was inaugurated. In April 1998, the so-called " African Village ", a village area opened after submission of an East African Kikuyu village, can be seen in the different types of animals of the African savannah and on its surface about 75 plant species of South and East Africa are located.
In 1999, a new education center was opened and remodeled two years later the entrance of the zoo fundamentally. In autumn 2001, a new facility for squirrel monkeys was opened and the tiger enclosure rebuilt and extended.
Valley Children's Zoo
In 2005 was completed with the " Valley Children's Zoo " the largest construction project in the history of the Oakland Zoo. The 1.2 hectare site contains many interactive activities for children. A petting zoo and oversized snakes and grasses to make the nature experience for children. On ways and walls insect replicas are discovering metal.