DierenPark Amersfoort

DierenPark Amersfoort is a 19-hectare zoo located on the West side of Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht, getting ready to the Birkhoven forrest, inside the Netherlands. The zoo have become based on 22 May 1948 with the aid of manner of Mr. Tertoolen and Mr. Knoester. Initially it became a totally small zoo with a monkey, a undergo, a camel and some livestock. In the years afterwards the first carnivore arrived, and in 1956 the elephants Indra and Rani arrived. In 1960, Mr. And Mrs. Vis-Tertoolen, one of the zoo founder's daughters and her husband, took over the control of the zoo, and the number one of the chimpanzees arrived. In 1979, 2 white southern white lions were born, but on the equal time as growing up they have become commonly coloured.

In 1982 seven Sudan cheetahs were born. In 1988, the park have been given a savanna location and "De Ark van Amersfoort" come to be opened. The zoo presently has an area of approximately 14 hectares. It is domestic to greater than one hundred animal species and hosts about 650,000 traffic yearly. Its ridable miniature railway, has a worldwide particular gauge of 340 mm.