Maubeuge Zoo

The Maubeuge zoo is a zoological park situated in Maubeuge, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area. Today, the zoo is known for its specific setting, in the very heart of the Vauban defenses, and the many creatures that are available: giraffes, hippos, white tigers, and so on. It currently covers a territory of ??7 hectares on which 350 creatures of 56 species are circulated.

In 1955, the agent city hall leader of Maubeuge made the "Greenery enclosure of the Rose Garden", on which is then fabricated the zoo. The main creatures are chimpanzees, a camel, guinea pigs, pigeon peacocks and ducks. The primary giraffe touches base in 1963. In 1970, the recreation center was viewed as the third French zoological space. Yet, getting to be old, ailing in venture, he step by step observed the quantity of his guests decline.

Since 2003, a strategy of remaking and rebuilding will in general offer back to the zoo its acclaim of old: difference in the supervisory crew, resumption of speculations, landing of new creatures, including two white tigers. The August 3, 2008, a tornado that hit a piece of the North caused numerous harms, for example, the annihilation of the aviary, the wild creatures' walled in area, the top of the giraffe park, and marmosets. Three lynx figured out how to get away from their fenced in area without leaving the Zoo.