New plans for the renovation of the Pachyderm House: Tierpark Berlin: Elefantenhaus wird für 35 Millionen umgebaut
According to information from Tierpark Berlin, the new elephant building/ complex is going to be the most modern one in all of Europe. The building process is to begin, once the Brehm building is open (planned for Spring 2020) and all elephants have reached their respektive new locations (due for the first half of 2020) and is scheduled to take about 2 years (estimated costs: 35,4 mio Euro). The elephants are to receive a total inside area 3.000 square metres (almost ten times more than right now). Alongside this, Tierpark is going to construct a huge(!) savannah exhibit for giraffes, zebras and antelopes and some more freshups for various African exhibits (estimated costs: 5,7 mio Euro). Copyright Tierpark Berlin Homepage Tierpark Berlin Tierpark Berlin also published some fresh updates on Brehm building and surroundings: Copyright: Tierpark Berlin, ant enclosure and penguin exhibit
Is the previous penguin exhibit completely gone or has it been incorporated and covered by the new one?
The latter. To be more precise: Two penguin exhibits are being merged into one and remodelled in the process.
Some fresh pictures from inside the tropical rainforest hall in the center of the Brehm building: Copyright Tierpark Berlin Apparantly these five signs only are to give a first impression on what can be spotted besides gharial and Co and they portrait red-whiskered bulbul, Asian fairy-bluebird, Bali myna, blue crowned laughingthrush and Palawan peacock-pheasant. So presumably there could well be more birds as well as other small animals added in the process.
Some fresh information along with selected impressions: The Brehm building progresses. Recently, 0,1 false gharial moved in: Copyright Tierpark Berlin They even made a short video on this which gives some intriguing first insights in the tropical hall. As with the former pictures, it seems like a grown exhibit to me: Meanwhile, some visitors' huts have been installed around the cheetah exhibit: Copyright Tierpark Berlin A user of the German Schuelingforum platform also shared a (low definition) building plan for this area. Other than that, they started removing trees at the respective areas for the upcoming projects Himalaya and Asian small-clawed otters.
The official and semi-official communication varies between "in a couple of weeks", "Spring 2020" and "this year" depending on the context, but I would think they probably aim for the main season starting in April.
The location best can be found on this earlier version of the Tierpark map. You just need to locate the (left) red arrow pointing to the Cafeteria restauration (now called "Patagona") and then kind of follow the arrow head towards the small pond to the left of the restaurant and above the toilet (WC) symbol. Source: Wikipedia Just for the sake of orientation with the new map handed to you at the entrance: Find the main Restaurant Patagona with the fish symbol and then just look above it: Copyright Tierpark Berlin By the way: It may always be a good ideal to have a print out of the old version as it is more detailed.
Tierpark Berlin released its results for 2019. The park had about 1.73 mio visitors. They also announced that the Brehm building is to reopen by the start of the season, i.e. in about 6 or 7 weeks.
2 spot-billed pelicans hatched and are being parent-raised. The species bred already in 1993 but the chick(s ? ) was / weren't raised and died shortly after hatching. This is also the first succesfull breeding of this species at the Tierpark .
In the Instagram post, they list the tiger species as Indo-Chinese tiger. Are they really?! Another reason to pay another trip, if so...
No, they are Malayan - Tierpark has historically refused to recognise the split between Indochinese and Malayan.
4 weeks to go. It feels a bit unreal - given the long and often slow process. Fortunately there are some updates with pictures. So it really seems like it is going to happen... Tropical hall: Copyright Tierpark Berlin King Cobra Enclosure: Copyright Tierpark Berlin Penguin Enclosure: Copyright Tierpark Berlin Vulture Aviary: Copyright Tierpark Berlin
Two Spot-billed pelicans (Pelecanus philippensis) have hatched at Tierpark Berlin. Nackedei aus dem Ei: Rekordverdächtiger Nachwuchs bei den Pelikanen im Tierpark Berlin
