La Palmyre Zoo

La Palmyre Zoo is a zoo in Royan, in southwestern France. It changed into created in 1966 in the forest of l. A. Coubre with the aid of Claude Caille. Extending over 18 hectares forty four acres, inclusive of 14 of landscape garden, it offers the visitor the opportunity of staring at greater than 1600 animals of all kinds, divided into 145 species, over a distance of extra than 4 kilometres. La Palmyre Zoo formally opened its doors in 1966, but the venture really began in a semi-authentic way in 1957, thanks to the efforts of its founder, Claude Caille. He was the son of a newspaperman, with whom he started out working on the age of 14.

In his twenties he met his future spouse, Irene, whose brother had a small zoological gardens in Croustille, near Limoges. It was through his common visits assisting his brother-in-regulation that Claude Caille located his ardour for animals. Consequently, he became involved and went on to examine zoology. In 1992, the zoo despatched a own family of tamarins lions to Brazil inside the framework of a rescue operation of this species, threatened since the give up of 1960 because of the forestry improvement and the extension of the human population.