Rainforest house
A rainforest house is a replica of the tropical rainforest often found in botanical and zoological gardens .
Examples
- The Burgers 'Bush , built in 1988, is a walk-in rainforest in a 1.5 hectare hall in the Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands.
- Since 1997 there has been a rainforest house in the Botanical Garden of the University of Osnabrück .
- In 2000, Wilhelma's Amazon House was opened in Stuttgart .
- Also in 2000 the tropical and bird house "The Rainforest" was opened in Cologne Zoo. There are plants and animals from the forests of Southeast Asia.
- The Vienna Rainforest House is located in Schönbrunn Zoo and was opened on July 5, 2002. It corresponds in every detail to the biological and climatic conditions in the rainforests of Borneo . About 70 different animal species live in it.
- In the summer of 2003, the one-hectare Masoala Hall was opened at Zurich Zoo ; it reflects a piece of the Malagasy rainforest. The rainforest greenhouse in the botanical garden of the University of Zurich is worth mentioning, even if it is much smaller .
- In 2011, the 1.65 hectare giant tropical hall Gondwanaland was opened in the local zoo in Leipzig . In this largest tropical hall in Europe, around 300 animals of 40 species and 17,000 tropical plants are shown.
- In Hanover there was a rainforest house on the grounds of the mountain garden . It was opened for Expo 2000 on March 25, 2000 and showed the flora and partly also the fauna of a tropical mountain rainforest. On July 16, 2006, the rainforest house was closed for economic reasons. After a renovation, a new Sea Life Center was opened in the Tropenhalle in spring 2007 .