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I would be grateful for any reports on this zoo. I visited it shortly after it opened, a few years ago, when the focus was very much on European animals. This seems to have been stretched a little now, with tigers and elephants arriving. Does anyone know why this has happened? I presume it is because visitors were not flocking in, but it seems an odd move in a country where elephants are done so well by so many other zoos. is this a zoo worth a visit? or, to put it anohter way, if it were a choice between here and say, Gaiapark, which would people choose?

Thanks!

 

They had very low visitornumbers. In my opinion because it looked like crap and they could have exploited the europe-theme much better before abandoning it (the collecting was very small and quite ordinary). So now they have tigers, elephants and camels etc.

If you can choose between gaia and dierenrijk i would say go to gaia. I haven't been in Dierenrijk for a while and i heared they improved their look a great deal, but i think it will still take a couple of years before it looks like a proper zoo.

 

With the new elephants exhibit, and since last week two Asian black bears (Ursus thibetanus) arrived this zoo certainly is more attractive for visitors.

 

Who knows how much elephant enclosure cost?

From pictures, this looks laughingly simple and very effective - paddock, space, grass to graze, some trees to shade. Model for other zoos who spend much more money on worse elephant exhibits!

 

I don't know the costs, it depends on how much you will/can spend. Look here to see how Rhene Zoo build their enclosure: Rhenen_Nieuwbouw_Eng
As you can see the outside enclosure is large but simple to build. The most expensvie part is the new barn.

 

1:0 Polar Bear (5 year old, Yelle) has been relocated to Canada this week and the zoo will shortly get an eight year female in exchange
ZOO SAUVAGE DE SAINT-FELICIEN - CENTRE DE CONSERVATION DE LA BIODIVERSITE BOREALE | POLAR BEAR EXCHANGE WITH EUROPEAN ZOO

 

Frimas arrived

The polar bears have arrived safely in their new homes.

http://ullijseisbaeren.wordpress.com/neuigkeiten-news/

 

3:0:0 African Lions (one year old triplets) have arrived from Arnhem today. A new species for this park

 

In 2 nests young Bald ibisses have been seen, total number still unknown. For Dierenrijk this is a first-breeding result.

 

Asian Elephant bulls, Than Myan and Kan Kaung will move on to Seville shortly

The remaining bull, Sibu will then be joined by Htoo Yin Aye, her daughter and two sons from Emmen (this is the family group that should have gone to Osnabruck earlier this year, before it went pear shaped when one of them failed a TB test)
Verhuisbericht: Zes olifanten stappen in de verhuiswagen - Dierenrijk, Lekker beesten tussen de dieren!

 

I am sooo sooo glad this arrangement / transfer is on the cards. Much better than either former alternatives ... Well done on zoo and studbook keeper. It was a true ... formidable task.

 

A Griffon vulture hatched at Dierenrijk

 

A lot of births at Dierenrijk :
Ibexes
Camel
Barbary monkeys
Northern bald ibis

 

Red pandas born at Dierenrijk

 

The oldest Polar bear in the Netherlands, the 32 year old female Wash was put asleep afther she got serious health-problems

 

Does anyone know if this bear came from Belfast zoo?

 

She did, in 1997
Oldest Dutch polar bear is put to sleep at the age of 32 - DutchNews.nl

 

Lion gets its head into a feeding-barrel, had to be darted to get him free ( dutch article and video of the "accident" ) :
Onhandige leeuw zit vast met kop in voederton - AD.nl

 

2 new Cheetahs arrived at Dierenrijk ( FB ).

 

Polar bear(s ?) born at Dierenrijk !