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Ueckermünde (dpa / mv) - The Ueckermünde zoo (Western Pomerania-Greifswald) can soon offer its guests a new large walk-in aviary with EU funding.
As West Pomerania State Secretary Patrick Dahlemann (SPD) announced on Monday, the financing of the new facility that has been planned for a long time is finally secured.
The approximately 800 square meter network system, in which visitors can experience many budgerigars up close, is to be built by summer.
The state will take over the zoo's own share of around 200,000 euros.
Dahlemann put the total costs for the up to seven meter high aviary and a new school farm at around 940,000 euros.
Most of the money comes from the so-called Interreg funding program of the EU.
The Ueckermünder Zoo has had around 120,000 guests a year.
Because of the corona pandemic and the associated month-long entry bans for day tourists from Poland and Brandenburg, only around 100,000 visitors came in 2020, as zoo manager Katrin Töpke said.
The zoo is home to around 400 animals of around 100 species, including monkeys, wolves, a pair of lions, flamingos and reptiles.
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