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Valencia Bioparc, Spain
This innovative zoo opened in 2008 and it is home to over 4000 animals who live on 10 hectares of land area in Valencia.
The city council with the help of Rainforest, a private company who builds and manages zoos, opened the Zoo-immersion concept on the grounds of the former city zoo.
This new concept gives the visitor the opportunity to feel like there are no boundaries between him and the animals and now he becomes one with the nature because the old traditional cages and railings disappeared.
So this Spanish company used the geographical relief to make a path for the visitors inside the natural habitat of the animals.
Using ponds, rivers, rocks and streams, designed to become natural barriers for the visitors, invisible ones so that the sense of continuity is present in the zoo.
The people don’t make the difference between the animal enclosures and the intricate eco-systems that were reproduced with great care.
So here the visitors were amazed by the fact that the animals, the vegetation and the landscape show how complex is mother nature but also offers you the sensation of being in the heart of the wilderness.
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