Zoo de vincennes

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The Zoo of Paris needs renovation. In May 2005 interdisciplinary teams were called by the zoo's authority, the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, to apply for the design of a masterplan for the Zoo of Paris. On 2 December 2005 a jury of officials of Paris zoo, Paris city and the department of the natural history museum decided in favour of the project by the team of TN+. The Paris based landscape architects Bruno Tenant and Jean-Christophe Nani (TN+) had two zoo specialists on their team: Jean-Mark Lernould, former director of Mulhouse Zoo and chairman of CEPA, an organization for the protection of endangered species, and Monika Fiby, zoo consultant, zoo designer and project manager of the ZooLex Zoo Design Organization from Austria. The project of TN+ was chosen for its qualities in landscape architecture, education and conservation. The animals exhibited will represent biodiversity and serve as ambassadors for in-situ conservation projects.

The teams participating in the competition were required to include specialists in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture, zoology, urbanism, tourism, scenography, green building and engineering. In May 2005 six out of several dozens of teams were chosen by the awarding authority, the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, to present their approach to the task described in the call. Three of them were retained to develop a masterplan for the renovation of Paris Zoo. The three assigned teams were TN+, Ellipse and Architecture Studio, the first being a Paris based landscape architecture firm, the two others being French architecture firms. The only specialists in the teams from abroad were Jacques Prescott, a zoologist from Canada who was hired by Ellipse and Monika Fiby, a zoo designer from Austria who was hired by TN+. Paris zoo was opened in 1934 on 14.5 hectares in the park of Bois de Vincennes. Its landmark is an artificial rock of 67 meters - "le grand rocher". Architect Letrosne was strongly influenced by Hagenbeck's zoo in Hamburg when he designed "a theater stage in concrete, a stylish landscape, wild and spectacular, but overtly artificial." The project of TN+ turned the zoo into a diverse landscape in which the historic rocks play their roles. They are part of the landscape and hide all the buildings. Zoo visitors will enter the zoo through a gorge and explore six biozones from various levels - "le zoo à étages" - European mountains, African rainforest, African savannah, the spiny forest of Madagascar, a South American wetland, and Patagonia. Animals will be displayed as representatives of their wild habitats. Vegetation therefore plays an important role in this project. Ecological kiosks build the transition between the biozones. They offer interpretation of the previous experience and education about the biozone just visited. The kiosks and several tropic halls around the zoo offer protection from climatic inconveniences during the seasons. The "grand rocher" will accommodate a panorama restaurant, movies and conferences. Estimates for the renovation are around 135 million Euro. In October 2005, prime minister Dominique de Villepin listed Paris Zoo among 35 public private partnership projects that are aspired by the government. Opening of the renovated Paris Zoo is planned for 2008.

Et aussi dans les faits divers, une saisie a la douane d'orly d'un jeune bonobo qui est pour l'instant, accueilli et soigné a Thoiry.

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