Varna Zoo

Varna Zoo
Date opened 1956[1]
Location Varna, Bulgaria
Coordinates 43°12′38″N 27°56′14″E / 43.2106420°N 27.9371434°E / 43.2106420; 27.9371434Coordinates: 43°12′38″N 27°56′14″E / 43.2106420°N 27.9371434°E / 43.2106420; 27.9371434
Land area 6 acres[1]
Number of species 72[1]

Lovech Zoo is a zoo located in Varna, the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and the third largest city in Bulgaria.

After the gift of a fox to the local Division of Parks and Forests in the early 1950, local people had started the zoo building, and a bear arrived in 1956. Today the zoo is housing 72 species of animals, of which 17 protected kinds of bids and animals, written in the Red Book of Bulgaria.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Varna Zoo website


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