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  1. Piko

    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Parco Natura Viva:
    - The male of White Lion is dead for old age (it was the oldest in Europe)
    - New Golden Eagles exhibit
     
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  2. Piko

    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Parco Natura Viva:
    - It's born a Scarlet Macaw
    - New L'Hoest Monkeys exhibit (first time for an Italian zoo, 14th in Europe), the male comes from Paris and the female from England
     
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    UK animal: Blackpool, Colchester (breeding and most likely ..) or Twycross?
     
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    The zoo website doesn't say from which zoo it comes from
     
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    From Scotland, actually. She's from Edinburgh.
     
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  6. Piko

    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Parco Natura Viva:
    On the website they added the virtual tour, I'll post the link for who is interested
    INGRESSO FAUNISTICO AEREA
     
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    The zoo welcomes two new male white lions. They are brothers and they come from Parc des Felins.
     
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    Visited a few days ago (put some pictures in the gallery), genuinely very impressed with what I thought was going to be an average-standard safari park! The overall atmosphere of the zoo combined with the range of species and quality of the enclosures has this zoo rivaling San Diego in my personal list! Some of the enclosures were huge, I'm space given to the grey wolves was about three times the size of what I normally see.
    If there is one complaint to be made, it's that sometimes the exhibits are a little too big to the point where it's hard to track down the animals. Which is a good thing mostly, I like seeing animals on their terms, but I'm sure that a pair of black swans had more overall space than the lions! (Are there supposed to be grey kangaroos mixed with them? They were on the map but there was no signage for them)
     
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    Great to hear that you had such a beautiful impression of Natura Viva. It is easily italian best zoo and there is a big masterplan for the upcoming years (next year is 50th anniversary of the zoo and a bachelor group of Western Lowland Gorilla is going to arrive).
    You're right about the big exhibit with black swans: they are mixed with a groups of grey kangaroos, but they prefer to hide in the shadow in summer (it's very hot in these days).
     
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    Can you share info on their new Masterplan? What is in store for us all?
     
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    Scottish Wildcat Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Interesting! Where are the gorillas going to be housed in the zoo?
     
  12. Marco Penello

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    Of course, as soon as I come back from my holidays (I am in Tenerife, yesterday I visited Loro Parque) I'll share info about their new masterplan. I work with them, so I can give you a lot of news.
     
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    In a new area in front of the exhibit of barbary macaques.
     
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    Here I am with some details about the new Masterplan of the park:
    - a bachelor group (like the one at the Loro Parque) of Western Lowlands Gorilla will come in 2019.
    - A new area, called "The Greenhouse of the Giants", will be built over the next two/three years and it will replace the old (and ugly) greenhouse. It will host some very interesting species like giant otters, giant Galapagos tortoises, giant antetears and Komodo dragons.
    - A new educational farm will be created over the next two years and it will host only rare indigenous species (it will be used also as gene bank for those species).
    - There is also a project to bring in the park another charismatic species like the koala in the not too distant future.
     
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    I have mentioned this elsewhere on the forum but will also post here, as it does pertain to Parco Natura Viva.

    In May, two European bison from Parco Natura Viva were released into the Southern Carpathians - twenty-three animals in total were released, of which four also came from Berlin Tierpark. It is the largest such release of the species.

    More information is included on the link below:
    Largest ever bison reintroduction in Southern Carpathians boosts population by 23 animals | Rewilding Europe
     
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  16. Marco Penello

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    1.1 Bali Myna have arrived. They come from Koln.
    1.1 Grey Kangaroos have arrived and they are located in the exhibit that previously hosted the Red-necked wallabies (now in a new exhibit).
     
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    parco natura viva, greenhouse like gondowanaland of zoo lipsia ?
     
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    and exhibit gorilla like congo forest of the Bronx zoo ?
     
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    The original idea is similar, but the area is smaller.
     
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  20. Marco Penello

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    It will be more like Berlin exhibit.