This poor zoo received last september 8th two female striped hyenas from Cyprus so I suppose Pafos Zoo. The females are called Nelly and Shenzy.
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Fréjus Zoological Park news
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Haliaeetus
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According to local press (Nice-Matin, Var-Matin) the Zoo de Fréjus will close definitively its doors soon. The municipality will buy the western part of the zoo (whose surface was already reduced in the past) to build a stadium.
This event hasn't been really commented among the zoo community, probable because this park is in severe decay for many years, and much criticized by animal activists and also the "average" visitors (most of the critics on Trip Advisor are frankly negative), so it hasn't yet much public support.
But I must add that this zoo was a really good place (according to the standards of the time) thirty years ago, with an interesting animal collection in a typically Mediterranean landscape under an ideal climate. It was the main zoo of the Côte d'Azur (where there isn't practically any generalist zoo currently, a true shame given that it isn't a poor region and that the environmental conditions are favourable to numerous species from warm and dry climates).
Since the 1980/90's many popular ABC species (as well as rarer, less-known species) have left the zoo or died then and haven't been replaced : Penguins (never seen personnally but reported on a zoo map of the early 1980s), Cheetahs, Giraffes, Southern White Rhino, Sea Lions... and finally the last Elephant (a 50-year female) in 2022.
I can really blame the city council of Fréjus and the local politicians that haven't been interested at all on wildlife conservation issues nor on the economic potential of such a park, especially to replace it by a crappy industrial activity zone with car retailers, building material stores... that all the tourists see when they come in this touristical city (when I talked about a bad-inspired idea...).
Have a glance to this horror, built at the place of the zoo few years ago, following previous land acquisitions by the city council (view from Google Maps) :
Google Maps
This event hasn't been really commented among the zoo community, probable because this park is in severe decay for many years, and much criticized by animal activists and also the "average" visitors (most of the critics on Trip Advisor are frankly negative), so it hasn't yet much public support.
But I must add that this zoo was a really good place (according to the standards of the time) thirty years ago, with an interesting animal collection in a typically Mediterranean landscape under an ideal climate. It was the main zoo of the Côte d'Azur (where there isn't practically any generalist zoo currently, a true shame given that it isn't a poor region and that the environmental conditions are favourable to numerous species from warm and dry climates).
Since the 1980/90's many popular ABC species (as well as rarer, less-known species) have left the zoo or died then and haven't been replaced : Penguins (never seen personnally but reported on a zoo map of the early 1980s), Cheetahs, Giraffes, Southern White Rhino, Sea Lions... and finally the last Elephant (a 50-year female) in 2022.
I can really blame the city council of Fréjus and the local politicians that haven't been interested at all on wildlife conservation issues nor on the economic potential of such a park, especially to replace it by a crappy industrial activity zone with car retailers, building material stores... that all the tourists see when they come in this touristical city (when I talked about a bad-inspired idea...).
Have a glance to this horror, built at the place of the zoo few years ago, following previous land acquisitions by the city council (view from Google Maps) :
Google Maps
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