Zoo-refuge la Tanière La Tanière - Zoo Refuge

Antoine

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Another new park to open this year in France.
This one is between a zoo and a rescue center. It is located near Chartres, a middle city, not far from Paris (one hour drive)
The park is under developments but it has already received and rescue a lot of animals such as tigers, lions, leopards, brown bears, fallow deers, parrots. They will received young elephant bulls with the agreement of EAZA.

The owners are very active on medias and Facebook.

Website : La Tanière - Zoo refuge Chartres (28) - Ouverture à Chartres printemps 2020
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According to the german forum Zoofreunde, this site La Tanière and Kolner Zoo internet site Aktuell, Rajendra a nine years old bull elephant will go to la Tannnière after the construction of an elephant exhibit has been completed. He will be joined by Ananda and Yoe Ma two other elephant bulls (from Maubeuge), 12 years old both, in need of space. Maubeuge will receive new younger bulls.
 
According to La Taniere-Zoo Refuge Facebook

A male red fox named Harry was rescued and arrived on June 4th.
2 red handed tamarins named Fripoullie and Amara were also rescued and arrived on May 23rd.

Here are the Facebook videos:

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This Zoo-refuge released a new video on Facebook where they explained that the 15 guinea baboons on loan from the Citadelle de Besançon will stay at the park as the Citadelle does not want them to come back (the loan was an idea of the Citadelle to make place to refurbish the baboons enclosure !).
So the Zoo-refuge is creating a 1.000 m² aviary for the baboons.

 
Some recent news :
- arrival of a griffon vulture ans a common marmoset.
- the park opened a mixed aviary for military macaws, scarlet macaws, green-winged macaws, blue-throated macaws, hybrid macaws, blue-winged macaws, moluccan cockatoos and citron-crested cockatoos.
 
No relation with "wild" species but the Zoo refuge de la Tanière would receive 200 Domestic Donkeys (!) from Israel, with the support of an Israeli NGO that has prevented their transfer to Egyptian slaughterhouses.
It's an important animal welfare issue in this last country (and other African nations), as the donkeys are often sold by their owners when they become too old, while their skins are exported to the Chinese markets.
All the donkeys wouldn't stay all the remaining years of their life in La Tanière, some of them would be sent to private owners who would care of them.
It's also interesting because it seems that such transfers would be possible in spite of the drastic EU regulations about livestock imports.
Animaux - 200 ânes transférés au zoo-refuge de La Tanière à Nogent-le-Phaye
 
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Lions at La Tanière: a first litter (2,1) were born in July and recently the zoo informs that a second female has given birth in October (2,0 LEO & ZEUS, one is „white”). The refuge explains that they received this year 7 lions (4,3) from a circus and after medical check they discover both pregnancies. Source: lechorepublicain.fr
 
Lions at La Tanière: a first litter (2,1) were born in July and recently the zoo informs that a second female has given birth in October (2,0 LEO & ZEUS, one is „white”). The refuge explains that they received this year 7 lions (4,3) from a circus and after medical check they discover both pregnancies. Source: lechorepublicain.fr
So 7 turned to 12 and they already had at least 3 lions. That's a lot of lions ! And tigers, leopards...
I wonder when they'll say "enough, no more space for big cats !"
 
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