Dublin Zoo
The Dublin Zoo is located in the Phoenix Park in Dublin and is the largest zoo in Ireland and one of Dublin's most visited attractions. It was founded in 1830 and is thus to Vienna, London and Paris, the fourth oldest zoo in the world. It receives over 500,000 visitors a year. The zoo has set itself three objectives: conservation, research and information. He describes these goals as follows: "Working with other zoos to make an important contribution to the preservation of natural diversity of life on earth. "
Conservation
The zoo is part of a worldwide conservation breeding program. He is also a member of the European Endangered Species Programme ( EEP), which coordinates the breeding of endangered species in Europe. As part of the EEP respectively a zoo cared for an animal species. The local coordinator maintains the studbook of the population. He mated individual animals in order to maintain an optimum gene pool. The Dublin Zoo maintains the studbook for the Golden Lion Tamarin and the Moluccan Cockatoo.
History
The Zoological Garden of Dublin was opened on 1 September 1831 by the Zoological Society of Dublin, which met for the first time on 10 May 1830. The former livestock amounted to 46 mammals and 72 birds, which were donated by London Zoo.
On June 17, 1903, a tragic accident occurred. An elephant named Sita killed her nurse while he nursed her injured foot.
The zoo suffered in the course of the Easter Rising 1916, a feed shortage, which meant that some animals had to be killed to get the big predators alive.
On 20 March 1927 a lion named Cairbre was born at the zoo. He is known as Leo the lion in the logo of Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer film studios from 1928 today.
Topics
1994 authorized the Government of Ireland to the zoo for a grant of 15 million Irish pounds ( € 19.05 million ) to privatize the zoo, so that he will no longer have government subsidies necessary. As part of this plan, a number of topics was developed: the World of Primates (the world of primates), the fringes of the Arctic ( The Arctic regions ), the World of Cats ( The world of big cats ), the City Farm (City Farm ) and the African Plains (African savanna ).
World of Primates
The World of Primates was the first theme system in a zoo at the opening of 1996. It consists of a series of artificial islands, which are situated in a big lake. Each island is home to a different monkey species, which are connected by walkways and bridges with the beds and the shore. They also come equipped with climbing, and employment opportunities. The buildings of this area are inhabited by chimpanzees, Eastern colobus, red ruffed lemurs, spider monkeys, and siamang.
African Plains
In the summer of 2000, the African Plains were inaugurated. This is a large savanna -like enclosure for the large African animals of the zoo. The Zoo 13 acres were provided for on the grounds of Áras an Uachtaráin, the presidential residence in Ireland available. This area enlarged the area of the zoo doubled.