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

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Varna Zoo website

External links

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