The Nuremberg Zoo is converting some of the animal facilities under the motto "The Reich Forest of Tomorrow and Animals of Yesterday" and thus creates a new home for endangered animal species.
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- The Nuremberg Zoo * is planning a major renovation campaign.
In the central part of the zoo, the so-called Mittelspange, the zoo will renovate all existing animal facilities over the next few years.
In terms of the landscape, different habitat types are planned in the various sections of the enclosure.
In the future, there will also be other paths with animal species.
As a zoo-horticultural innovation, attempts are being made to connect all six enclosures with one another in such a way that all the animal species kept there can be kept alone or in a company in a wide variety of constellations, according to a message from the city of Nuremberg *.
Therefore, in a first step, the reindeer, elk and bison enclosures are grouped together.
With the renovation, the zoo ends the keeping of reindeer and elk.
In the future, other animal species will live in the enclosure in the Mittelspange.
Nuremberg: Nuremberg zoo builds enclosures for endangered species
Exactly which animals will move into the new enclosures has not yet been fully clarified.
What is certain, however, is that it will mainly be endangered Asian species.
The saddleback tapirs, deer boars and Prince Alfred deer have already been set.
The Nuremberg zoo coordinates the conservation breeding program of the European zoos for black-backed tapirs and deer boars.
There are probably also a rare species of cattle and at least one species of antelope or gazelle, the report continues.
The working title of the new enclosure project is: “The realm of tomorrow's forest and yesterday's animals”.
This should mean that the vegetation in the Reichswald will change so much as a result of the climate change in Nuremberg that the forest will no longer have any resemblance to the image we are familiar with today.
"This alienation is exaggerated in the Mittelspange project, through an exotic-looking Asian vegetation that will catch the eye between the local trees," explains zoo director Dr.
Dag Encke.
Video: Critically Endangered - Rare Species in the Nuremberg Zoo
New enclosure project also planned with Asian vegetation
Different Asian species of plants and trees are to be placed in the new enclosure.
These plants are also an eye-catcher.
They cause a sensation at different times of the year with different colors - from yellow blooms in January to autumn to flaming red at the end of the year.
The alienated forest image symbolizes a “new nature” that will replace the familiar.
“In contrast to plants, animals also represent Asian habitats, but they embody the opposite: They will be extinct in their homeland if the vegetation of their former habitats could have found a new home in Europe”, as stated in the report by the city of Nuremberg * called.
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