Bioparc Zoo de Doué la Fontaine News from Zoo de Doue

Mhorr gazelle Gazella dama mhorr (it is yet a very valid subspecies and clearly identifiable as separate from central nominate G.d. dama and the ruficollis cum addra - now ex situ main population in the USA with a reintroduction offshoot to Chad-) to be precise.

After initiale holding an all male group Doue has managed to set up a nice breeding group of Mhorrs.
 
Do you know what the 1.5 hectares of expansion announced some time ago will be dedicated to? A new themed area? I wish it was the start of an Asian area or walkthough aviary

The next project still seems to be an Asian extension to the Bioparc. But I believe that this future aviary will be on an existing part of the zoo.

According to an article, we can assume that it will be the tigers who will benefit from this new enclosure but a priori not before 2027.
At the Bioparc, we have never duplicated the same landscape twice, so I hope the future will always be different. In recent years, our major projects have not been to welcome new emblematic species but to provide new living spaces for animals already present. By 2027, we will invest in land to provide forest space for our carnivores. Play on a larger site, with greater relief, to highlight our terroir. I want to diversify, to decline this troglodytism with new landscape atmospheres. As for sixty years, we will continue to keep our promises.
https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de...-bioparc-976f5ba2-51ae-11ef-a8bc-1d781c64ef19
 
A few years ago the talk was about doing the asiatic aviary where the tiger enclosure is now, once they moved to a bigger exhibit.
As the tiger pair is old (the male is 15 and the female almost 19), maybe they will wait until they can have a new, younger, breeding pair.
 
Do you know what the 1.5 hectares of expansion announced some time ago will be dedicated to? A new themed area? I wish it was the start of an Asian area or walkthough aviary

Like previous posts said, the next expansion is very likely going to be for the Sumatran tigers, and will probably happen around 2026/27. As for the Asian aviary, it has been in the talks for almost a decade now at the park, but it has never been further than a project for now. It would be placed at the old vulture career now unused and the current gibbons+tigers exhibits, and would have a similar structure to the okapi sanctuary (big ungulate like anoa or malayan tapir, monkeys, and a lot of birds). However, it's probably not going to happen very soon.
 
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