Safari Zoo Mallorca News

Developments:
- The 31st of January of last year, the zoo posted the following instagram post where job positions are offered. The post translates to this:
"Big changes are coming to Safari Mallorca! With more than 22 hectares in a unique natural environment, and now part of Rain Forest from 2025 onwards, we are preparing a transformative project that will mark the future of the park. To make it a reality, we are looking for passionate and committed people who want to be part of this great adventure. If you love nature and want to be part of the change, join our team!"
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Rain Forest S.A., the entity that the post mentions is the company that runs the BIOPARC parks as well as other zoos such as BioDomo Granada and the not-yet remodeled Casablanca zoo. The interest of the company in purchasing and modernizing this shabby safari park was a recurrent rumor, and it seems like they have reached a deal. I guess we will have to keep an open eye on what will go on for the future of this zoo!
 
SivatheriumGuy said:
Developments:
- The 31st of January of last year, the zoo posted the following instagram post where job positions are offered. The post translates to this:
"Big changes are coming to Safari Mallorca! With more than 22 hectares in a unique natural environment, and now part of Rain Forest from 2025 onwards, we are preparing a transformative project that will mark the future of the park. To make it a reality, we are looking for passionate and committed people who want to be part of this great adventure. If you love nature and want to be part of the change, join our team!"
-
Rain Forest S.A., the entity that the post mentions is the company that runs the BIOPARC parks as well as other zoos such as BioDomo Granada and the not-yet remodeled Casablanca zoo. The interest of the company in purchasing and modernizing this shabby safari park was a recurrent rumor, and it seems like they have reached a deal. I guess we will have to keep an open eye on what will go on for the future of this zoo!
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An actual news article has surfaced, I translated it;

"The well-known and also controversial Sa Coma Safari Zoo is changing hands. Last January, the Rain Forest group, owner of Bioparc Valencia, bought the company and also the land where the zoo is located in the municipality of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar. The company, with Spanish capital, aims to turn the safari into a center where you can see animals and "a benchmark in awareness, divulgation, conservation and environmental leisure based on all our experience over the last 20 years", they explain from the new property.
At the moment, they have begun to carry out the first actions to adapt the premises. They say they are carrying out conservation and cleaning actions while keeping the doors of the premises open. Despite this, they recognize that their animal park concept is long-term, so the transformation in Sa Coma "will require a global design development and subsequent construction".
The new owners assure that, as they did in Fuengirola in 2001 and in Valencia in 2008, their way of acting is to make the transition "from enclosures with a completely obsolete zoo base to the avant-garde concept of Bioparc as parks of life".
"Our projects are animal conservation centers of the 21st century, a new way of understanding leisure, creating 'leisure with a cause'," they add while remembering the importance of raising awareness in society about the protection of nature and the environment. They add that the population of species that currently exist in the park will be maintained for the moment.
The zoo has 56 years of history. In 1969 Herrmann Ruhe fenced the enclosure to convert it into a space to house the wild animals that he brought from the African continent and then sold to zoos in Europe. However, it was not until the end of the eighties that it became the zoo under Siegfried Mentz."

Bioparc Valencia compra el safari de Sa Coma
 
Seems that (part of the troop) hamadryas baboon can comes to Valencia, in the near future, as part to the new area in development. Just a suposition, nothing confirmed.

I would much like the olive baboon (Papio anubis) as part of "ancient Egypt" zone.
Maybe some vervets be transfered from Mallorca to Valencia too?
 
I might be visiting this zoo in March, does anyone have tips for visiting because I see it is a drive-through (or bus through) zoo at the start but walk-through at the end?
 
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