7 Wisents escaped - 5 have been re-catched, the other 2 are still missing : European bison escape from zoo in South Bohemia
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.
Recently a female European lowland-bison (Bison bonasus bonasus) was born. Source: Instagram of Zoo Tabór (28/01/2022) Login • Instagram
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
Recently another European lowland-bison (Bison bonasus bonasus) was born, this time a male! Source: Instagram of Tabor Zoo (05/03/2022) https://www.instagram.com/p/Casl6kMIzWA/
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.
I dont know at which place exactly in the areal it is. But its construction started in September and should be open in spring 2024.
Recently a 21-year old female Northern Raccoon (Procyon lotor) passed away. Source: Instagram of Zoo Tabor (27/10/2023)
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?
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.
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.
