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The southeast-Asia zone opened yesterday and is introduced in the following video :
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Currently, it holds at least :
Northern white-cheeked gibbon and Michie tufted deer
Malayan tapir
Northern treeshrew
Ocadia sinensis and Orlitia borneensis
Bali starling, Crested partridge and Sumatran laughingtrush
Crocodile lizard
Black-necked ibis
Baer pochard
Lesser whistling-duck

Will join them soon:
Edwards pheasant
Bankiva hen
and some hornbill, I would bet on Aceros corrugatus.

So already a nice line-up of mainly endangered species but none of the above mentionned rarities ("milky storks, Owston's banded palm civets or Sunda hooded pitta") yet. Let see how it evolve.

On top of this, it was announced that the former gibbon aviary will be dedicated to expanding the Amur leopard territory, that when the old Asian lion will pass away, it will not be replaced and that the couple of sacred crocodile (suchus) will be sent to Morocco.
The large fallow deer enclosure may be replaced by a zone in favour of the "European urban faune"
For a bit of context, the Ecologist party recently won the city at last elections and was not really in favor of keeping the zoo initially. It seems that the zoo team managed to orientate in a good way the willingness of the Greens, as they call them, to reform things.
 
Sending the suchus crocodile to Morocco is not the best I guess. I would have hoped for a European ex situ conservation EEP. Heard rumors a Moroccan croc park did have 1 suchus ... anyone know more?
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Sending the suchus crocodile to Morocco is not the best I guess. I would have hoped for a European ex situ conservation EEP. Heard rumors a Moroccan croc park did have 1 suchus ... anyone know more?
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All of Crocoparc Agadir's (I believe that's the zoo you're hinting to?) crocodiles are supposedly from Tunisia (Djerba Crocodile Farm) which themselves imported them from Madagascar. That should make them Madagascan nile crocodiles.

There might be a single suchus hanging around the 300+ Nile there but if so it's certainly not advertised (whether it'd be in the zoo or on their website). The only mention of Desert crocodiles inside the zoo is about how Morocco used to have them in the wild until recently (but also, if I remember correctly, the zoo was trying to work with the government on a potential reintroduction project for them but I don't think it went anywhere).
 
Birth of a rare and CR Greater Bamboo Lemur in the Lyon Zoo in last April.
Nature et Zoo on Instagram: "Après une gestation d'environ 150 jours, un bébé grand hapalémur est né au Zoo de Lyon en avril dernier ! Il s'agit du cinquième petit du couple présent au parc depuis 2015. Cette naissance est exceptionnelle à plus d'un titre puisque le grand hapalémur est actuellement considéré comme « En danger critique d'extinction » (CR) sur la liste rouge de l'UICN. L'EEP dédié à cette espèce, qui ne compte que 30 grands hapalémurs répartis dans 7 zoos européens, n'a vu naître que 3 petits en 2022. Le jeune lémurien du Zoo de Lyon est d'ores et déjà visible aux côtés de ses parents et de sa sœur. . . . Crédit photo : © Zoo de Lyon . . . #zoo #zoos #parczoologique #parcanimalier #naissance #zoodelyon #grandhapalemur #prolemursimus #hapalemur #eaza #afdpz #natureetzoo"
 
The PAZ association is once again calling for the closure of the Lyon zoo. This time, the association launched a petition for this.
The city hall does not want to close the zoo but rather rethink its organization and the species it welcomes.
We can expect a departure of large species and more spaces favoring cohabitation between smaller species such as "Asian forests" opening in 2021.

À Lyon, une pétition pour demander la fermeture définitive du zoo de la Tête d’Or
 
Valentin said:
The PAZ association is once again calling for the closure of the Lyon zoo. This time, the association launched a petition for this.
The city hall does not want to close the zoo but rather rethink its organization and the species it welcomes.
We can expect a departure of large species and more spaces favoring cohabitation between smaller species such as "Asian forests" opening in 2021.

À Lyon, une pétition pour demander la fermeture définitive du zoo de la Tête d’Or
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The impact of the activism - a rather romantically misinformed urban populace receptive to anti zoo arguments - is most disconcerting and spreading like wildfire sometimes.

I wish they would all invest their whole income on biodiversity ..., but they don't as they want housing, cars, mobiles, laptops ... fridge/washing machine, all mod cons and these do not exist in the natural world. The natural world being reduced EXACTLY by their (and our all) footprints that should in fact be reduced by a factor 4.1 in order to allow the natural world to restore and regenerate itself.

Endangered species nor entire ecosystems will not be saved by this activism, ... nay shutting zoos will only exacerbate the Sixth Extinction and the repository and conservation breeding rol for ex situ conservation action will be lost.

We must fight these extreme opinions till the bare bones...., if not .... the idiots will win.
 
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Mehdi said:
All of Crocoparc Agadir's (I believe that's the zoo you're hinting to?) crocodiles are supposedly from Tunisia (Djerba Crocodile Farm) which themselves imported them from Madagascar. That should make them Madagascan nile crocodiles.

There might be a single suchus hanging around the 300+ Nile there but if so it's certainly not advertised (whether it'd be in the zoo or on their website). The only mention of Desert crocodiles inside the zoo is about how Morocco used to have them in the wild until recently (but also, if I remember correctly, the zoo was trying to work with the government on a potential reintroduction project for them but I don't think it went anywhere).
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Indeed their enclosure in Agadir looks nice (much better than I feared), but they would rather raise young crocs and/or breeding pairs for any reintroduction purpose.
Some pics of the enclosure have been posted on Facebook : ZooAnlagen - onlyExhibits | CrocoParc Agadir, Morocco | Facebook
 
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