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Region: Fuengirola
Location: Málaga, Spain
Member since: 21-08-2007
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Address: Avda. Camilo José Cela, 8-10, Fuengirola, 29640, Málaga, Spain
Phone: 0034 952666301
Opening times: 7 days 10.00 - Midnight
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FUENGIROLA ZOO
For a hundred years now, zoos have been involved in breeding in captivity animals threatened with extinction, thereby helping some of the species alive today to survive. Przewalski’s Horse, Pere David’s Deer and the Hawaiian Goose were not only saved from extinction by the efforts of zoological parks, but today have even repopulated their areas of origin.
Techniques for raising animals in captivity have benefited over the years from scientific and veterinary advances, and today there are some highly complex “ex situ” breeding programmes for various species. In Europe these operate under the auspices of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, and are known as either EEP (European Endangered Species Programme) or ESB (European Studbook) projects, depending on the degree to which handlers are involved.
BREEDING PROGRAMMES AT FUENGIROLA ZOO
Since it was first planned, Fuengirola Zoo was intended to house species whose reproduction was of the utmost importance. To this end a selective collection plan was implemented, leading to the construction of enclosures specially designed for this purpose. Through these efforts, and the high standard of our veterinary staff and facilities, Fuengirola Zoo has won the trust of the EEP, and has been sent valuable examples of such high-profile species as the Sumatran Tiger and the Bornean Orang-utan, among others.
During the brief period they have been at the zoo, some species have already reproduced, such as the Lemurs, the Orang-utan, the Pygmy Hippopotamus and the Blue Duiker, while the social behaviour of the young pairs suggests a promising future in the breeding of certain species considered to be difficult to deal with.
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