Toronto Zoo

Receipt of the Toronto Zoo

The Toronto Zoo is a zoological garden in the Canadian city of Toronto. The zoo is located approximately 20 kilometers northeast of the city center on the Rouge River. With around 5000 animals - including invertebrates and fish around 16,000 - an area of ​​287 hectares and about 10 km running paths he is one of the largest zoos in the world. Its area is organized according to zoogeographical continents. Each year, the zoo in Toronto is visited by approximately 1.2 million people.

History

The Zoo goes back to an opening in 1888. His original name was Riverdale Zoo and placed the animals in dark cages in the form of curiosities show dar. 1963 first came up the idea of ​​building a new zoo. Eleven citizens then founded 1966, the Metropolitan Toronto Zoological Society. A year later, the Rouge Park in Scarborough has been considered as a possible place for a new zoo, was so that in 1968 collected by the architect Raymond Moriyama a feasibility study. In 1970 he began construction of the new Zoological Gardens, which opened on August 15, 1974 as the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo to the public. The original surface of the first park in 1888 amounted to approximately 3 acres and in 1978 was converted into an urban farm. Opened in 1976, the zoo, a 5.6 km monorail called Canadian Domain Ride, which was however closed in 1994 due to an accident with 37 injured visitors again.

1980 and 1984 were the Zoo added new facilities with a children's zoo and equipment for gaur, African elephants, snow leopards and a pavilion for Indian rhinos. 1985 Qinn Qinn and Shayan were shown a Big Panda pair. The rarity of these animals attracted many visitors, so that all previous attendance records were broken. Over the years, often come to other animals, such as the snub-nosed monkeys in 1986, 1988 and 1996 koalas and White Lions in 1995.

2003 saw the zoo because of the SARS epidemic, a strong decline in visitors, of which the zoo recovered only very slowly.