Meat for the Crimean safari park "Taigan" will now be supplied from the Stavropol Krai and the Rostov Region. The governors of these regions responded to the recent request of the Amur Tiger Center for assistance, and now the animals of the park will be fed to their fill.
Recently, the park "Taigan" had problems with old suppliers of meat. Animals did not have enough food - only lions eat about 500 kilograms of meat per day. In total, more than one and a half thousand animals live in the safari park, including 30 Amur tigers.
The Ministries of Rural Industry of the Stavropol Krai and the Rostov Region have worked on the issue of assistance to the “Taigan” park, and already now it has reliable suppliers of meat and meat products. According to the director of the park, Oleg Zubkov, after the conclusion of contracts, it will be possible to go and buy meat in the right quantities.
Recall that problems with feeding animals were raised in November at a meeting on the further development of the safari park “Taigan”, which was attended by the deputy head of the control department of the President of the Russian Federation, member of the Supervisory Board of the Amur Tiger Center. Then, further steps were planned to overcome the temporary difficulties encountered by the park management. One of the issues was the creation of a reserve fund of feed. In addition, they discussed issues of assistance in determining the genetic purity of animals and certification of predators, as the nearest points of contact between the Center and the park.
Safari Park "Taigan" - a unique complex that attracts thousands of tourists from all over Russia. Today, the number of Amur tigers in the park is about 30 individuals, which is the largest collection of Amur tigers kept in captivity in Russia. Also in the nursery there are lions and other species of animals, mostly large mammals.
In March 2014, the Amur Tiger Center and the Yalta Zoo “Fairy tale”, which includes the Taigan Safari Park, agreed to cooperate in both scientific and practical activities. Specialists of the Center will continue to support the zoo in raising a new generation of a rare species of the cat family.