Chemnitz Zoo

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Tierpark Chemnitz
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The famous lion Malik
Chemnitz Zoo
50°49′6″N12°50′6″E / 50.81833°N 12.83500°E / 50.81833; 12.83500
Date opened1964
LocationNevoigtstraße 18
09117 Chemnitz, Germany
Land area10 hectares (24.7 acres)
No. of animalsca. 1000 [1] (2014)
No. of speciesca. 200 Species [1] (2014)
Annual visitors141.677 [1] (2014)
Memberships EAZA, [2] WAZA [3]
DirectorAnja Dube [4]
Website www.tierpark-chemnitz.de

The Chemnitz Zoo (German : Tierpark Chemnitz) is a zoo in the city Chemnitz in Sachsen, Germany.

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The Zoo was opened in 1964, and has a thousand animals from two hundred species, living on 10 hectares (24.7 acres). During the first decades, most species reflected the nature of the Soviet Union, and later the zoo moved into breeding endangered species. In 2014, the Zoo had over 178,000 visitors. [1] In 2004, a lion wounded a female zookeeper, and in 2006 another female zookeeper was killed by a leopard. [5] After the female Amur tiger Taiga died in the fall of 2016, the male Jantar lived alone in the tiger enclosure. In December 2017, a second Amur tiger, Wolodja from Nuremberg Zoo, moved into the facility. However, the already 19-year-old Jantar was euthanized just a few weeks later. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Datenblatt zum Tierpark Chemnitz auf der Homepage des Verbands der Zoologischen Gärten.
  2. "EAZA Member Zoos & Aquariums". eaza.net. European Association of Zoos and Aquaria. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  3. "Zoos and Aquariums of the World". waza.org. WAZA. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  4. Freie Presse Online – retrieved 20 June 2011
  5. Focus.de: Leopard zerfleischt Tierpflegerin
  6. Tierpark Chemnitz: Tiger Jantar musste erlöst werden. Pressemitteilung 57 der Stadt Chemnitz vom 24. Januar 2018.

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