Betzenberg Wildlife Park

Betzenberg Wildlife Park
Stone and inscription
Date opened	1970^[1]
Location	Kaiserslautern, Germany
Coordinates	49°26′00″N 7°47′30″E / 49.433362°N 7.791624°E / 49.433362; 7.791624Coordinates: 49°26′00″N 7°47′30″E / 49.433362°N 7.791624°E / 49.433362; 7.791624

The Betzenberg Wildlife Park (German: Wildpark am Betzenberg) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, was founded in 1970 with the aim of enabling the population to observe native species of animals - including those that used to live wild around Kaiserslautern but are no longer native there today.^[1]

Woodland school

Today the park also has a role in protecting species that are threatened by extinction, such as the Wisent and other endangered animals. The park is home to owls, wild boar, lynx, mouflon, bred back tarpans, aurochs and other animals. It also has a woodland school in the middle of an old forest that, in places is 120 years old, as well as the Eichenkranz, a stand of trees estimated to be about 300 years old. The park is open all year round and entry is free.

Notes

1 2 DeMotts, Joshua L. (2 December 2014). "Wildlife in Kaiserslautern park awake to winter". stripes.com. Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 24 December 2015.

Zoos of Germany

Zoos	Augsburg Zoo Bad Mergentheim Wildlife Park Berlin Tierpark Berlin Zoological Garden Betzenberg Wildlife Park Bremerhaven Zoo Cologne Zoo Cottbus Zoo Dortmund Zoo Dresden Zoo Duisburg Zoo Eekholt Wildlife Park Erlebnispark Tripsdrill Essehof Zoo Frankfurt Zoo Hamburg Hagenbeck Zoo Hanover Zoo Heidelberg Zoo Hellabrunn Zoo Hirschfeld Wildlife Park Hodenhagen Serengeti Park Karlsruhe Zoo Krefeld Zoo Landau Zoo Leipzig Zoo Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park Magdeburg Zoo Münster Zoo Nuremberg Zoo Olching Bird Park Opel Zoo Osnabrück Zoo Rostock Zoo Saarbrücken Zoo Sassnitz Wildlife Park Südliche Weinstraße Wildlife Park Stuttgart Wilhelma Zoo Walsrode Bird Park Wuppertal Zoo ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen

Aquariums	AquaDom Aquarium Berlin German Oceanographic Museum Ozeaneum Sea Life Centres Germany

Historical	Königsberger Tiergarten (now in Kaliningrad, Russia)

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