Landau Zoo in the Palatinate

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Landau Zoo in the Palatinate
place Hindenburgstrasse 12
76829 Landau in the Palatinate
organization
management Jens-Ove Heckel
Funding organizations Friends of the Landauer Tiergarten eV
Member of WAZA , EAZA , VdZ
Zoo Landau entrance.JPG
www.zoo-landau.de
Landau Zoo in the Palatinate (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Landau Zoo in the Palatinate

Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 10 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 39 ″  E

The Landau Zoo in the Palatinate is the zoo of the Rhineland-Palatinate city ​​of Landau in the Palatinate .

location

The zoo is only a five-minute walk from downtown Landau . That is why it is also known as an oasis in the city. It borders the historic fortifications of the Landau Fortress . In the city he can be recognized on street signs by a pictogram depicting three orange dromedaries .

history

On July 24, 1904, today's zoo site was taken over by the “Vogelfreund” association, which built the first bird houses . The city has owned the zoo since 1920. Up until the Second World War , the "Tiergarten Landau" was continuously expanded. After the destruction in that war, it was rebuilt. During the southwest German garden exhibition in 1949, other buildings were built, such as today's free flight hall, which at that time still served as a plant showroom. From 1954 to 1961 Karl Gräf, a trained animal keeper , was director. He was followed by the zoo keeper Roland Schneider, at whose time the monkey and warm house was built. In 1973 the veterinarian Rudolf Spengler became the new zoo director. He transformed the zoo into a zoo. In 1990 the zoo grounds were expanded by two hectares . In 1994 a veterinarian, Bernhard Neurohr , also became zoo director. Under his direction the socialization of different species was carried out, which still exists today. The veterinarian Jens-Ove Heckel has been the zoo director since 2000 . Since then, the zoo has been extensively modernized and no longer only serves the purpose of recreation, but also counts species protection , environmental education and research among its important tasks in the sense of the world zoo and aquarium conservation strategy.

Animals and enclosures

Penguins in the Landau Zoo

Species and nature conservation projects

Environmental education and zoo school

The Landau Zoo School is a cooperation between the University of Koblenz-Landau , the Landau campus and the Landau Zoo in the Palatinate. It was founded in 1992. The building of the zoo school is in the grounds of the Landau zoo. The zoo school offers lessons for kindergarten children and school classes of all types of schools all year round. Another focus is on the organization of workshops, children's birthdays and special events (zoo safari, picture book cinema, evening tour, etc.). There are also special offers for sick and disabled people as well as for adults / seniors. Events for the further training of teachers are also held regularly in the zoo school. The Landau Zoo School sees itself today as an institution for education for sustainable development. An attempt is made to bring together “green environmental education” and development education with a diverse teaching program. Based on the principle of Agenda 21 "Think globally - act locally", the zoo school today also focuses on topics that introduce children to global contexts and networked structures.

Picture gallery

All following pictures are from the Landau Zoo.

  • Maras

  • Helmet guinea fowl

  • Flamingos

  • meerkat

  • Ecuadorian Amazon

  • Southern blue wildebeest

  • Hartmann's mountain zebra

  • White stork

  • Northeast African cheetah

Web links

Commons : Zoo Landau in der Pfalz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History on www.zoo-landau.de
  2. ↑ Biodiversity: That is why the topic is important! | Murmann magazine . In: Murmann Magazin . May 22, 2017 ( murmann-magazin.de [accessed November 7, 2017]).