Zoo De Beauval Amenagements (2)
Zoo De Beauval Amenagements (1)
Zoo De Beauval Amenagements (2)
This is the age that Rodolphe, never really comfortable within the education system, left and never went back. The exceptional journey of a ‘self-made man’!
That is the area in square metres of the new veterinary clinic inaugurated in 2017. It has a scanner, operating table, recovery room and a medical analysis laboratory.
This is the number of animals that you can see in the park today, spread over 600 species and 40 hectares.
Nuage De Beauval Inauguration 2019 Rodolphe Delord
In metres, the altitude of the ‘Le Nuage de Beauval’ cable car. Since 30th March 2019, 24 8-seater cabins have been giving visitors a bird’s eye view of the park, from a breathtaking angle.
That’s the number of hotel rooms available at Beauval. In 2008, Rodolphe Delorrd and his team decided to make Beauval a destination in its own right. To make it happen, they had to take a lot of risks: more communication, more recruitment, more investment… According to ‘experts’ the hotels would not work. There are now three, and it’s not finished yet.
The approximate number of employees on site in 2019.
This is the year that Françoise Delord left Paris for Beauval in Saint-Aignan, with her husband, the magician Jacques Delord, their two children Delphine and Rodolphe and her collection of birds which increased rapidly from 300 to 1500.
It is the decade in which, according to Rodolphe Delord, the tipping point came between the zoo being a simple place of entertainment and the zoo being a site of biodiversity and conservation, with research programmes in ethology, researchers working on-site, general eco-responsibility… Beauval was one of the first large zoological parks to make a strong commitment to this approach and was involved in the change of image of zoos in general. Following this logic, dolphins were removed a few years ago, based on evidence by animal conservationists.
This is the annual sum in euros spent by the ZooParc de Beauval for field projects, i.e. 30 to 35 programmes per year: protection of species and natural environments, reintroduction of species, purchase of forests, fight against invasive species, research, etc.
It is the annual number of visitors which could be reached in 2019.
This is a huge figure for a site that has only existed for 40 years. By way of comparison, it is around the same number as Parc Astérix, the Grand Palais in Paris and Futuroscope in Poitiers. The Chateau de Chambord, another big attraction in Loir-et-Cher, welcomes 1 million visitors.
