Lelkendorf pet park
| Lelkendorf pet park | ||
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| motto | Domestic animals and farm animals: touching - grasping - understanding | |
| place | Peeneweg 26 17168 Lelkendorf |
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| surface | about 16 hectares | |
| opening | 1992 (as a zoo) | |
| Animal species | 53 | |
| Individuals | 351 | |
| Species focus | rare and endangered domestic and farm animal breeds | |
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| management | Alexander Vay | |
| Funding organizations | Friends and supporters of the Pet Park Lelkendorf eV | |
| www.haustierpark.com | ||
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Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 22 " N , 12 ° 43 ′ 51" E
The Lelkendorf Pet Park is a year-round animal park on the edge of the Mecklenburg Switzerland and Kummerower See nature reserve . Mainly old, rare and endangered domestic and farm animal breeds are kept and bred in family herds and groups.
The pet park is located in Lelkendorf in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , about 13 kilometers northeast of Teterow . The Lelkendorf Pet Park was founded in 1992 - at that time still as a zoo. Obstetrician ?? For the Lelkendorfer project was the then pet protection park Warder (now called Arche Warder ) in Schleswig-Holstein with its director Jürgen Güntherschulze.
Ark Park
The Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds (GEH) awarded the Lelkendorf Pet Park on June 24, 2012, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the title “Arche Park”. This made Lelkendorf the sixth zoo in Germany to carry this title. This award is only given to those public institutions that have been committed to the preservation of old and endangered livestock breeds for many years and actively make this visible to the public. The manager Jürgen Güntherschulze retired at the end of 2017. The Federal President awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. This was given to him in November 2018 by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig .
Duration
The stock includes almost 400 animals whose breeds are acutely threatened with extinction. Many are on the GEH's Red List of Endangered Domestic Animals . Extract from the list of domestic animal breeds kept in Lelkendorf:
- Juan Fernández goat , also called Robinson goat
- Girgentana goat , also called Mafia goat
- Skudde (one of the oldest and endangered domestic sheep breeds )
- Rhön sheep
- Belgian bearded rabbit
- Rotbuntes Husum pig , also Danish protest pig called
- Exmoor pony
- Chinese masked pig
- Cachena beef
- Diepholz goose
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article TAZ
- ↑ GEH website , accessed on September 27, 2017
- ↑ Criteria for recognition by GEH , accessed on September 27, 2017
- ↑ Website of the pet park , accessed on November 22, 2018
- ^ Report on Nordkurier.de from November 14, 2018 , accessed on November 22, 2018
- ↑ Red List of the GEH ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
