Concern about Kharkiv Zoo : Ukraine crisis leaves animals in Kharkiv zoo fighting for life - Telegraph
This news item is about 3 months old! The crisis in Ukraine has been going on for some time now. Just waking up are you? It is nice to see that after an initial sensationalist article journalists have not even bothered to investigate or monitor progress in Kharkiv Zoo since. Not that I was expecting any of the journos making anything of an effort!!! (yes, the latter was meant to be sarcastic, not my first observation at the top ..). I fear that the news since has not been good. Allthough, again I have not found much to go on ... what actions or reperative measures have been taken since. I am not particularly confident the current Ukraine / Kiyv administration is capable of making any difference nor concerned to do the right thing.
Yup we knew that there was a crisis in ukraine and there is still is.Our grandma lives in Kharkiv plus its our first home since we was born and raised there.But we never knew that the situation had affected the zoo since Dolphinarium Nemo that is few steps away from the zoo is doing fine during this all crisis.We are glad to hear that the zoo is getting better
I'm not going to take sides in this post. I have been watching reports from the ground, and what is obvious is that it the common people on the ground that are suffering the most from this conflict. Those people with little means are made to suffer the most in this conflict. Just like the zoo and the animals within. That region has not had to suffer conflict since World War II so, I'm sure when people were building there towns and house they were not concerned about armed conflict coming to them. I find it shocking that something like this would happen in what I considered a somewhat stable part of the world. Right now Scotland is getting ready to vote on a referendum on whether to split apart from the United Kingdom. In that case the "power of the people" is deciding the fate of the nation rather than violence. I just want the people with the power to realize, it is the people in the middle that have little means that are loosing so much. Their home, their transportation, their sources of income, the lives of their friends and family, and their own lives all destroyed in this conflict. This zoo is just one more example of "collateral damage".
Cheetah exhibit (built under EAZA standards) is completed now, and building of giraffe house was continued. http://kharkov.comments.ua/news/2015/04/14/175502.html The cheetahs arrive this year from Tanzania (not sure if captive-bred or wild-caught)
3 brown bear cubs are born. Breeding this species is highly questionable, considering there are lots of brown bears being in need of rescue and living in bad conditions, mostly private-owned. The parents of cubs were rescued several years ago. Each captive bred brown bear takes up the exhibit space from another long-suffering one.
According to this article, part of Zoopark Charkov has been opened on Monday 23.8. (after 5-years long reconstruction works). It has some pics. It also mentions an oceanarium under construction that should open in 2 years and contain polar bears and pinguins. Do we have any member from Ukraine who could visit and write some review? It looks like massive investment. In pre-covid-times, we had direct lowcost flights from Prague airport to Charkow but I never went so no idea how it looked like before.
