Tábor Zoo Tabor-Vetrovy Zoo

Those 2 wisents are still moving free outside today, 5 days after their escape. Police and volunteers are monitoring them with drones. The zoo asks people to keep away and don´t disturb their efforts to get them back into the pen.
 
This private zoo got new attendace record last year - 110.000 which is 15% more than in year 2019.

Some future plans and news from media article:
- a young Great grey owl will be sent to zoo Lubin / Poland.
- 1,0 albino red-necked wallaby will be sent to zoo Karlsruhe
- 4 emu chicks hatched last week
- 0,1 wisent was born recently
- the zoo is open on weekends and holidays during winter season
- construction of a new bird house is envisioned for next year, housing their large parrots
- this year, a new suricata exhibit will be built and their current lion enclosure enlarged
- in cooperation with ministry of enviroment, a new enclosure for large hardy cats will be built in 2023, to offer space for dangerous animals in case any are seized by authorities
 
The zoo has started construction of a pawed road connecting the zoo with main public road nearby. It is paid by the zoo itself and bypasses nearby family house estates. This is one of steps needed to overcome objectives of local municipality that still blocks legalisation of buildings within the zoo areal. The former zoo owner built all animal enclosures without ever asking building permission and it stays unresolved for 10 years.
 
Jana said:
- in cooperation with ministry of enviroment, a new enclosure for large hardy cats will be built in 2023, to offer space for dangerous animals in case any are seized by authorities
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Is this the construction area next to the wolves?
 
Jana said:
Those 2 wisents are still moving free outside today, 5 days after their escape. Police and volunteers are monitoring them with drones. The zoo asks people to keep away and don´t disturb their efforts to get them back into the pen.
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Did they ever recapture both wisent from the nearby forenst?
 
Jana said:
Yes, they did.
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How large is the Tabor wisent / visent herd (2022: 2 births as per your information)?

I seem to remember having read that Zoo Tabor provided wisent for reintroduction in Eastern Europe. Correct and is this an on-goiing project?
 
Jana said:
The zoo has started construction of a pawed road connecting the zoo with main public road nearby. It is paid by the zoo itself and bypasses nearby family house estates. This is one of steps needed to overcome objectives of local municipality that still blocks legalisation of buildings within the zoo areal. The former zoo owner built all animal enclosures without ever asking building permission and it stays unresolved for 10 years.
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Is this willful neglect on the part of the Municipality to resolve the issue of there being a zoo in the first place. How is the zoo perceived by locals around Tabor?

Reason I am asking is that despite the zoo owner never applying for planning applications (which I find stupefying ... it can be so easy), on the other hand the zoo has been at the current site now for more than a decade.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Is this willful neglect on the part of the Municipality to resolve the issue of there being a zoo in the first place. How is the zoo perceived by locals around Tabor?

Reason I am asking is that despite the zoo owner never applying for planning applications (which I find stupefying ... it can be so easy), on the other hand the zoo has been at the current site now for more than a decade.
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Municipality is trying to obey laws and that means that it processed a building application placed by the current owner in 2015 (after he bought it when it bancrupted) and rejected it. The zoo is built on land that is zoned as agricultural land, forest and in small part village (with limitation on capacity, height etc. of houses).

The new owner negotiated with municipality for years what must he do to reach new zoning of the land under the zoo. Building a new road that would bypass village was one of them. I don´t know if new zoning was already officially approved or still pending. And without new zoning, no house/structure can be approved on, not even ex post.

People in Tabor like their zoo. People living in village/suburb Vetrovy where the zoo is located hate it with passion and are lobbying to shut it down. They are fed up by zoo visitors (100k annually) causing traffic jam on their narrow reads and parking cars everywhere even on private land or blocking entrance to their houses.
 
Two new enclosures for winter-hard large cats´ve been opened. They are designed to keep tigers, puma, leopards or lynx (depending on demand) but will first remain empty.

They were funded by our state ministry. Our ministry decided to fund construction of rescue capacity for large carnivores at 5 different zoos. Because, when government decides to seize a large cat or similar species, it has huge problem to actually seize it and place it somewhere. We dont have "sanctuaries". And this is a solution they came up with.

 
Jana said:
They were funded by our state ministry. Our ministry decided to fund construction of rescue capacity for large carnivores at 5 different zoos. Because, when government decides to seize a large cat or similar species, it has huge problem to actually seize it and place it somewhere. We dont have "sanctuaries". And this is a solution they came up with.
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I really approve this. The American sanctuary model, even if the animals are not ever bred for profit, feels silly and hypocritical. A government funded rescue and relocation program makes more sense.
 
The zoo is helping a local private owner of large cats to disperse her animals to good new homes (she decided to give up - mostly due to her age and conflicts with authorities).

Two lions (white male and yellow female) will move to Tabor zoo soon. This is permanent placement, the zoo built a second lion enclosure for them.

A younger puma was sent to a small park Altenfelden in Austria recently.

There are still two pumas left. Search for a new home continues.

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