• The zoo at the Parc de l'Orangerie in Strasbourg will become an educational and family park.

  • The city now wishes to develop the two areas of the park, including the mini-farm, which should be free and accommodate a care center for injured animals.

  • The mini-farm will therefore become the hub of the park and be the subject of renovation work to be even better suited to animals.

    Wild and exotic animals could be transferred to sanctuaries in Europe.

Discussions about the future of the Orangerie zoo have been hotly debated for years. The ecological mayor of Strasbourg Jeanne Barseghian finally announced this Thursday that the zoo, which for more than a century has presented a hundred wild and domestic animals, would become an educational and family park "for a better knowledge of the animals of our regions . "

The mayor relies on the 65,000 signatories who spoke on an online petition in 2019 and who demanded the closure of the park.

The city now wishes to develop the two areas of the park, including the mini-farm, which should be free.

The first avenues for this reconversion of the site are to make it a place of entertainment and learning, including animal care activities, "presentation of endangered species or even fun and cultural discovery of local fauna. .

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The mini-farm will therefore become the hub of the park and be the subject of renovation work to be even better adapted to animals and increased educational resources.

We will talk about eco-grazing, a journey of the five senses, actions to desensitize the phobias of certain animals, and discover the wild fauna in the park.

Towards a transfer of wild and exotic animals

An evolution of the park towards an urban farm which had already been started in recent years, with the transfer of certain animals such as lynxs.

Today, for the Strasbourg executive, it is a question of going further in the project.

"As it is in 2021, it no longer has its place in Strasbourg," assures Marie-Françoise Hamard, municipal councilor responsible for animals in the city in charge of the zoo file.

But what will become of the macaques? It is still an angry subject. If the mini-farm will largely evolve, "on the other hand, warns Marie-Françoise Hamard, for the respect that we owe to animals, it is no longer possible to endorse the part where wild animals are kept in cramped and poorly situated places. adapted, they no longer have their place in the orangery. As for the macaques precisely, they could go to a more suitable sanctuary, but disagreements remain with the association of friends of the Orangerie zoo, in particular on the timing of these transfers. Birds, Wallaby, it's over. The city does not wish to wait for their natural death and wishes to encourage and support their transfer as well.

At the next municipal council, on June 21, the annual subsidy to the Association des Amis du Zoo de l'Orangerie will be voted.

Association which owns the animals and also manages the mini-farm, the city being the owner of the place and the building.

If the association is supported, the mayor promises, “the part of the funding concerning the captivity of wild animals will be gradually reduced, to be stopped in the long term.

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