Zoo de Giza

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City: Giza

Country: Egypt

Province: Giza

Opend 01.03.1891

 

species 130

 

 

 

The Giza Zoo is the largest zoo in Egypt. Located in the city of Cairo, it is one of the few 'green' areas in the city, and includes Cairo's largest park. The zoo covers about 40 hectares (99 acres), and is home to many endangered species, as well as a selection of endemic fauna.

 

 

To permit the poorer citizens of Cairo (Downtown Cairo is only 20 kilometers/12 miles away) and Giza to visit the city's only green park, the entrance fee is small and is not enough to cover the costs of running the zoo. The zoo's main goal is to entertain, rather than to educate. However, many rare species have been successfully bred in the zoo - including the first Californian Sea Lion to be born in the Middle East in 2002.

 

 

The zoo was built by Khedive Ismail and opened on 1 March 1891. It was built on about 50 feddan (21 hectares (52 acres)) that was once part of the harem gardens. Ismail imported many plants from India, Africa, and South America, of which a banyan tree planted about 1871 can still be seen. The original 180 birds and 78 other animals in the zoos collection were taken from Ismail's private menagerie.

 

 

In the late 1870s the state took over the zoo as partial payment of the Ismail's debts. In January 1890, the harem building was opened as a natural history museum, and was used in this manner until a new museum was opened in Tahrir square in 1902. The portion of the gardens facing the Nile were sold to the public for large homes, but the harem gardens were kept intact.

 

 

When the zoo was built, the exhibits with semi-natural habitats were considered spacious by European standards. The animal collection emphasized Egyptian species, and at one time claimed 20,000 individuals representing 400 species, though many of these may have been migratory birds. By the mid twentieth century, the zoo was considered one of the best zoos in the world, but it has had trouble adapting to the pressures of growth in the latter half of the century as human populations in Cairo have increased.

 

 

By the end of World War II the zoo claimed 4,700 exhibits, with a total of 700 mammals and 500 reptiles. Attendance levels of 43,567 in 1889 rose to 223,525 by 1906. In 2007, the zoo hosted almost 3.4 million visitors.

 

 

In 2004, the zoo lost its membership with the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA). The zoo had gotten behind in membership payments, and then ignored the recommendations of WAZA inspectors. As of 2010, it is a member of the African Association of Zoos and Aquaria (PAAZAB), and is working towards getting re-accredited by WAZA

 

 

The gardens include roads paved with black stone flags from Trieste, footpaths decorated with plebbles laid out like mosaics, and a pond with a marble island that is now the zoo's Tea Island.

 

 

The zoo also includes a suspension bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel that lets visitors view the animals from above. This bridge may have been the first elevated viewing area at any zoo in the world.

 

 

There is a reptile house and taxidermist's building on site.

Service given

 

Open : minimum 8.30am-4pm

Entrace fee: Yes

For kids: Playgrounds and pettingarea

Food: The Zoo has a place where you can get a snack

 

Taking photos: Is allowed, if publiciesed, please mention the zoo on your homepage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact

Phone number 02 35708895

Fax number ++202 35727612

Address: Zoo de Giza, Giza, Egypt

E-mail: gizazoo@gizazoo-eg.com

Web-site: www.gizazoo-eg.com

 

 

 

 

 

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Vis stort kort

I don't have any guides of this zoo. I know they have made a guide in the year 1991. Does any body know if they made other guides? And where I can get any guides of Zoo de Giza?

 

 

 

 

 

In the years 1918, 1943, 1968, 1993 and 2018 they had theire anniversarrys. Have they made any books on this occassion?

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