www.zoo.ge
City: Tbilisi
Country: Georgia
Province: Tbilisi
Opened 1927
Species 190
At the zoo you finde as exoterarium with fishes (more than 100 species), reptiles and insects. Of bigger animals you finde elephants, hippos and rhinos. The ungulates are shown on a savannah, but there also are some wild sheeps, deer and the kamels on display. Of course there also are carnivores like the lion and tiger and some monkeys like baboons. The zoo has a small amusementpark on its ground. Since 2017 animals slowly are moved from the old zoo to a modern zoo. The first inhabitants here since 2017 were the brown bears and wolves
Last visit 2022
Tbilisi Zoopark
M. Kostava street 64
Tbilisi
Georgia
www.zootierliste.de/map.php?showzoo=10001772
Phone Number.: 032-221-3060
Open minimum 10am - 7pm
Entrance Zoo
Aquarium Entrance (Inside Zoo)
For children there is a play ground as well as a small amusement park
History:
The Tbilisi Zoo was established by the decision of the Tbilisi City Council on 10 February 1927. It was designed by a group of Georgian and Russian specialists. The Zoo was further expanded in the 1930s. Initially the Zoo consisted of 4 sections: Caucasian or Local; Fauna of the USSR; Exotic animals; Agricultural animals. At its heyday in the 1970s, the Tbilisi Zoo was home to more than 1,000 animals and enjoyed more than 500,000 visitors per year. The Zoo, largely depending on dwindling funding allocated from the city budget, went into decay as a corollary of an economical collapse and political unrest that hit post-Soviet Georgia in the 1990s. A World Society for the Protection of Animals representative, Neil Trent, reported in 1993 that more than half of the animals at the zoo had died of starvation or cold since 1991. The Zoo experienced a modest revival in the late 2000s. A marine aquarium, the first such establishment in the Caucasus, was opened in 2007. The Zoo belongs to the Tbilisi City Hall and largely depends on funding allocated from the city budget. In 2012, the government of Tbilisi decided to relocate the zoo from the city's centre to a zoological and recreation complex adjacent to the Tbilisi Sea, a large reservoir at the eastern outskirts of Tbilisi. A project developed by the Australia-based architecture firm Hassell was to include "an entrance hub, boulevard, a secondary hub with playground and café, inner zoo and an outer open range zoo as well as woodland areas." Due to the lack of funds, the relocation was delayed and the zoo remained at its old location, when, on 14 June 2015, the swollen Vere river flooded the zoo. Several of its inhabitants died, while many surviving animals, such as a hippopotamus, lions, tigers, bears, and wolves, escaped to the streets of Tbilisi. Some animals were recaptured but several were shot by emergency forces. In total, the zoo lost nearly half of its inhabitants, as well as three keepers who lived onsite.
