Basic introduction of Wenzhou Zoo

Wenzhou Zoo is a famous tourist destination of Wenzhou Wildlife Park.

Wenzhou Zoo is located in the lotus core scenic spot of Jingshan Park. The garden site is surrounded by mountains, with overlapping peaks, lush pines and cypresses, lush bamboo forests and gurgling streams. Mountain flowers are dotted all over the mountain, and birds are singing and cicadas are echoing, which makes tourists feel back to nature. The zoo is designed and built according to the national second-class zoo scale, covering an area of 22.7 hectares, with a total investment of 37 million yuan and a construction area of 5,000 square meters. It was built in June 2000 at 65438+ 10/day, and now there are more than 80 kinds of wild animals and nearly 1 000 animals. It is also the only zoo in southern Zhejiang.

The zoo is 6 kilometers away from the city center, with an altitude of 150 meters, overlooking Lucheng. The exhibition of zoo animals adopts the popular exhibition forms of stocking and ecological cage at home and abroad. There are elephant hall, hippo pond, Tiger Mountain, Lion Garden, Woong San, Deer Garden, Peacock Garden, Waterfowl Lake, Amphibious Crawling Hall and other buildings in the park. There are rare animals such as Siberian tiger, African lion, elephant, giraffe, chimpanzee, gibbon, red-crowned crane, macaw, python and crocodile. Animal Show There are wonderful animal shows every day. Children can feed and pet pigeons and all kinds of small animals in the communication square between people and animals. The park also has complete service facilities such as canteen, fast food restaurant, telephone booth and rest pavilion.

Since the opening of the zoo, the natural scenery, planning and layout, architectural features, landscaping, animal display and management services in the park have been well received by all walks of life. Now Wenzhou Zoo has become the largest and highest-level comprehensive zoo integrating sightseeing, scientific research, popular science and wildlife protection in southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian.

Wenzhou Zoo was built as a national second-class zoo with a total investment of 37 million yuan. It was officially opened to the public on National Day in 2000. Rare animals such as giraffe, chimpanzee and mandrill have been introduced, and two animal art festivals have been held, and various popular science education activities with the theme of wildlife protection have been carried out every year, which has enhanced the attraction of the zoo. The passenger flow has increased year by year, reaching 580,000 in 2004. Ticket revenue reached 90 1 58,000 yuan. This year, from 1 to1,nearly 500,000 tourists were received, ticket revenue reached 9.6 million yuan, and total tourism revenue exceeded 100 million yuan. Social response is good, and economic and social benefits have achieved good results.

Persist in enriching the contents of animal display and improve the quality of zoo landscape. Wenzhou Zoo is a theme park with the main content of displaying living rare wild animals, which allows visitors to receive education on wildlife and ecological environment protection in leisure and entertainment. There are nearly 30 exhibition halls, and there are more than 2,000 rare wild animals 150 species, including 20 species of national first-class protected animals and 278 species of national second-class protected animals. Invested 6.5438+0.2 million yuan to build an open animal performance field, and regularly performed sea lion water ballet, bear skating and other wonderful programs for tourists every day. Invested 6.5438+0.8 million yuan to build a new bird park and introduced more than 20 species and 800 birds.

The park insists on holding colorful competitions, festivals and other tourism activities to tap the potential and improve the social and economic benefits of the zoo.