ZooParc de Beauval Zooparc de Beauval news 2021

More recent births : 2 dwarf mongooses, 1 sitatunga, 1 bush thick-knee, 2 blue-winged gooses, 10 scarlet ibisses, 6 common black kites, 4 abdim's storks, 5 african spoonbills and 1 female ocellate river stingray.

Moreover the zoo opened in the last weeks a new nursery for frogs and fishes where you can seen mostly poison frogs and a pair of catsharks. This new nursery is located at the end of the gorilla and stingrays greenhouse.

Saint-Aignan - La nurserie des grenouilles, pour tout savoir des batraciens au zoo de Beauval
 
The attendance at the zoo for this summer was incredible.
The zoo welcomed 301.900 visitors in July (the best july month in history) and I heard on TV that August saw 440.000 others coming so a total of near 742.000 persons in 2 months !
 
Great news : the zoo has submitted a planning application for the construction of an off-show local wildlife conservation centre. The new building will be constructed 1 km far from the zoo and will be 500 square meters large (with care rooms, operating room and a lab). 7 employees will work there including two vets. They will care of the local injured fauna (5.000 animals expected each year) in order to cure and release the most of the animals. I suppose that the zoo will work with local NGO such as LPO (french member of Birdlife International). Cost will be between 1,5 and 1,7 million euros.
Opening is expected for late 2022/early 2023.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
What credentials have both females right now?
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As far as I know, there's probably only Ashanti who could breed. Maybe also N'Dala but it would be surprising because she's 31 years old and she had her only calf, Rungwe, 9 years ago. The other females seem to be too old to breed. Among the 4 old females, only Tana has bred in the past, her last calf was born in 2007 (it died the day of its birth).
 
Gil said:
As far as I know, there's probably only Ashanti who could breed. Maybe also N'Dala but it would be surprising because she's 31 years old and she had her only calf, Rungwe, 9 years ago. The other females seem to be too old to breed. Among the 4 old females, only Tana has bred in the past, her last calf was born in 2007 (it died the day of its birth).
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I heard the same things.
 
Antoine said:
Pachamama, the first ever born andean condor in Beauval (last year, august 1st), will be released into the wild in Argentina. This female left the zoo for Buenos Aires last april 21st and will join other young andean condor in Patagonia in a transition aviary before their released.
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Pachamama has been released into the wild, with six other andean condors, last September 17th.

Video about the release :
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=400723078316596
 
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