Rheine Nature Zoo
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| motto | Experience animals, understand nature ... | |
| place | Salinenstrasse 150 48432 Rheine |
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| surface | 13 hectares | |
| opening | 1937 | |
| Animal species | 100 species of animals | |
| Individuals | 995 animals | |
| Visitor numbers | 292,275 (as of 2017) | |
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| management | Achim Johann (director) | |
| Sponsorship | NaturZoo Rheine e. V. | |
| Funding organizations | NaturZoo Foundation | |
| Member of | WAZA , EAZA , VdZ | |
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| http://www.naturzoo.de/ | ||
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Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 49.3 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 20.6" E
The Rheine Nature Zoo is located in the north of the city of Rheine in the Münsterland . Together with the Gottesgabe saltworks , the Bentlage monastery and the surrounding Bentlager forest, it forms a local recreation area. The zoo has an area of 13 hectares.
history
The zoo was founded in 1937 as a home zoo with fallow deer and wild boar and other Central European established species. Although the focus was initially on the local fauna, the zoo also housed rhesus and long-tailed macaques from the start . In 1965 the zoo changed its concept and turned its focus to non-European animal species.
From 1973 to 2002 Wolfgang Salzert was the zoo's scientific director. The zoo has gained a national reputation through many new types of enclosures and its commitment to protecting species .
In 1974 the first accessible monkey forest in Germany was opened in the Rheine Nature Zoo. Today's colony of Barbary macaques goes back to its first inhabitants .
In 2004, with the help of donations and support from the city of Rheine and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a new seal and penguin facility was opened, which replaced the old, unsuitable tanks.
The zoo counted 290,000 visitors in 2017, making it one of the most popular leisure activities in the Steinfurt district .
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Animals
The zoo currently houses around 1000 animals of a hundred different species. In addition to various species of monkeys and the native, free-flying white storks, there are also seals and tigers. The pair of tigers caused a sensation in 2003 and 2004 when they fathered three cubs, two of them unplanned.
The Rheine Nature Zoo is known for the monkey forest. 20–30 Barbary macaques live there in a fenced-off oak grove. The visitors go through a lock and can explore the area on a path. The monkeys have the opportunity to get close to the visitors. Zoo keepers give regular tours through the monkey forest and explain how the forest works and how the monkeys are looked after.
The Rheine Nature Zoo is home to the world's largest breeding colony of blood breast baboons . The breeding program ( EEP ), in which the zoo is playing a leading role, aims to save this endangered species of apes. With around 200 storks, it has the largest stork colony in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to these zoo storks, there is roughly the same number of wild storks that spend the winter in the zoo. Other storks are counted during the bird migration .
Nature zoo
The name Naturzoo is intended to emphasize that the Rheiner Zoo is not an ordinary animal park .
The zoo follows an educational concept that aims to explain relationships in nature to visitors and to raise awareness of one's own environment. There are educational games throughout the zoo, there is a nature trail and a zoo school for children. In addition, the zoo tries to enable the animals to live as species-appropriate as possible.
The zoo tries to be kind to the environment. For example, wastewater is cleaned in a plant-based sewage treatment plant .
New buildings
After opening the enclosure for sloth bears and golden jackals in 2009, the stork enclosure in 2010 and the expansion of the tiger enclosure in May 2011, the owl aviary was completed in 2013 . The new petting zoo opened in April 2014. The lemur forest, which opened in 2016, is located on the site of the old petting zoo.
Web links
- Homepage nature zoo
- Excursion report of the Zoo-AG Bielefeld from the year 2000
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the VdZ, Rheine Nature Zoo
- ↑ www.naturzoo.de/artenschutz
- ↑ wdr.de
- ↑ Complete List of EEPs and ESBs on the EAZA website , accessed September 4, 2014.