Söderåsens Zoo - New zoo in Sweden

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Next year, in May, a new zoo called Söderåsens Zoo will open in Sweden. The collection isn't the best in the world, but it is a new zoo, with potential, so they will probably build more exhibits in the future. For more info, and pics, visit their website.

Söderåsens Djurpark

Here's the animal list, taken from the homepage.

African pygmy goat
African hedgehog
Bontebok
Cotton-top tamarin
Pygmy marmoset
Giant eland
Flying foxes
Wildebeest
Chipmunk
Bactrian camel
Red deer
Llama
Mandrill (the only ones in Sweden)
Mouflon
Coati
Crested porcupine
Ring-tailed lemur
Red-bellied tamarin
Red-necked wallaby
Red-handed tamarin
Slender-tailed meerkat
Night monkey
Red-ruffed lemur
Wild boar
Common marmoset
Zebra
Domestic donkey
Fennec fox
White cockatoo
Bali mynah
Rainbow lorikeet
Indian peafowl
Snow goose
Blue-and yellow macaw
Blue-fronted amazon
Blue-throated macaw
Common wood duck
Great green macaw
Fireback pheasant
Emu
Vulturine guineafowl
Goffin's cockatoo
African grey parrot
Horned parakeet
Hyacinth macaw
Cape Barren goose
Demoiselle crane
Kea
Crowned crane
Reeves's pheasant
Scarlet macaw
Long-billed corella
Magellan goose
Mandarin duck
Marabou stork
Mealy amazon
Salmon-crested cockatoo
Green-winged macaw
Common rhea
Egyptian goose
African olive-pigeon
Helmeted guineafowl
Rose-breasted cockatoo
Red-breasted goose
Illiger's macaw
Satyr tragopan
Sarus crane
Laughing kookaburra
Military macaw
Sun conure
Bar-headed goose
Black swan
Temminck's tragopan
Crested wood partridge
White pelican
White stork
Eclectus parrot
Argus monitor
Green anaconda
Green iguana
Yellow anaconda
Yellow-footed tortoise
Boa constrictor
Leopard tortoise
Madascar ground-boa
Corn snake
American alligator
Chameleon
Red-footed tortoise
Red-eared slider
Common snapping turtle
Spider turtle
African spurred tortoise
Cane toad
Four-lined tree frog
Golden poison frog
Californian newt
Chinese gliding frog
White's tree frog
Oriental fire-bellied toad
Cranwell's horned frog
Red-eyed tree frog
Iberian ribbed newt
Tiger salamander
Tomato frog
Leaf-cutter ants
Electric eel
Spotted gar
Goldfish
Chinese snakehead-fish
Koi
Black-finned pacufish
Giant pangasius
Red-bellied piranha
Red-headed cichlid
Red-tailed catfish
Motoro stingray

This zoo looks like it will have a pretty good collection, for being so new, and our zoos in Sweden aren't so good with their collections either. There are also plans in the future of building exhibits for lions and tigers, so we'll see what will happen in the future...
 
I have only just recently been made aware about this new and up-coming zoo in the south of Sweden, thanks to the local papers reporting about a monkey escape from it. It all sounds very promising and serious to me and as I live in the south of Sweden I will be looking forward to visiting it when it opens next year.
 
You mention bontebok, i would be quite sure these would in fact be blesbok, as there are no bontebok in Europe any more.
That also applies to the giant eland too, but then again you never know.

Here's the animal list, taken from the homepage.

African pygmy goat
African hedgehog
Bontebok
Cotton-top tamarin
Pygmy marmoset
Giant eland
Flying foxes
Wildebeest
 
I might be on thin ice here, as I do not have anywhere near the knowledge that so many of you forumsters have, but is giant eland really an unusual (even non-existant) species in European zoos? Copenhagen Zoo held this species until the new African savanna was created and I believe that the eland herd was simply sent off to some other Danish zoo?
 
Söderåsens Zoo won't have any rare species but it does seem to be an interesting zoo and I look forward to visiting it. The Tropikcenter in Halmstad has closed down and will move its entire collection to Söderåsen.

@Dan: Giant elands do not exist in European zoos and Copenhagen Zoo has never kept this species. We used to keep common elands as almost every other zoo in Europe that keeps eland does (very few keep cape elands or East African elands).

@kiang: You are right about both species. It will be common eland and bleskbok rather than giant eland and bontebok.
 
Does anyone know what happened to the Söderråsens Djurpark project? From what I can read on their website the project has been taken over by something called Tamarin Djurpark. Did they run out of money and had to sell? It says on the website for the Tamarin Djurpark that they hope to open the park during the summer.
 
From what I've read in Swedish newspapers:

Ljungskogens Djurpark imported animals illegally and when they applied for a "zoo license" from Swedish authorities they were instead charged with criminal offenses (the illegal importation being one, unpaid bills and taxes an other). They later changes their name first to Söderåsens Djurpark, then Breeding farm and now Tamarin Djurpark. They also bought the animals from Tropikcenter, a small, indoor city zoo from Halmstad. However, not all animals were collected from the premises and apparently a turtle was left behind as well as some invertebrates. This is also under investigation from the authorities.

From in information available the same people are behind the park, even though the name keeps on changing. They have also sold animals, collected the money but never delivered the animals. This is a sad story that we surely will be following for a long time since the owners of the park seems very set on opening sooner or later. One can only hope that they will get their affairs straight first. I believe people should be given a second chance but this is a travesty since new problems occur all the time.
 
Hi
I get this from the Tamarin Djurpark in e-mail.
It is translated with google, so everything isn´t right.

"Hi Rickard. You had some questions about our park, which I gladly answer.
Yes we are taking over the south ridge of land in Billesholm and lease substantially all of their old land and buildings. We have also taken over some of Söderåsens animals but not all. I have no list, but now they are about 20 species.

We plan to open the zoo as soon as we received all permits for public exhibition ready. Our hope is that we open some time after midsummer, but we have much work left. We want everything to be tip top at the opening.

At the opening, there is not all the animals with which we want in the future. We hope for some more animals in the future but we are open on a smaller scale. It also depends on what county administrative board to allow us to have. We are very careful not to have any problems with the authorities so we want to maintain an ongoing dialogue with them. Thus the first condition since animals. In the slightly longer term, we have big ambitions in the animal side and want to show up a lot of interesting animals to the public in nice enclosures and cages.

Have more questions, just let us know.

Yours sincerely

Thomas Berglund
Chairman of the Economic association Tamarin Djurpark"
 
Right, so does ANYBODY know ANYTHING about what is going on at Tamarin Djurpark? There appears to be no official website. Does it even hold any animals? And is it open for visitors?
 
They had aquired loads of animals, including various primates before they applied for a "zoo permit" which you need before you can legally hold primates, non-domestic carnivores(excluding badgers) in Sweden. Some of the animals were malnourished and in a pretty sad state, others looked good. As far as I know the entire project is down now.
After the owners got arrested the animals were either put down, some even on site, or distributed to various zoo´s and holding areas in Sweden.
 
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