The delegation of Feldman Ecopark visited Sweden, where it attended Skansen, the ethnographic and zoological complex.
Kharkiv representatives watched the zoological collection of the complex and met local zoologists, specialists of educational section and the Head of Zoological Department, the Chairman of the Swedish Association of Zoos and Aquaria Tomas Frisk.
“We conducted the preliminary negotiations with our Swedish colleagues concerning the exchange of animals. In particular, we are interested in lynxes, wolverines, sloths and a golden lion tamarin in Skansen. We are also interested in their experience in moose breeding: Ukraine currently develops the state programme aimed at the recruitment of these animals, and Feldman Ecopark is planning to take part in it,” the Director of the Regional Landscape Park Andrii Roshchupkin told.
According to his words, the specialists of Ecopark made the presentation about the development of eco-therapy, animal-assisted therapy and other social projects of Feldman Ecopark. “Eco-therapy becomes more and more popular in Sweden. Animal-assisted therapy in zoos is a new direction that wasn’t developed before in this country, so Feldman Ecopark’s experience in this field interested its Swedish colleagues. Our presentation will be soon presented at the next meeting of Swedish Association of Zoos and Aquaria. We are ready to share our experience with Swedish specialist and introduce them to our best practices,” Andrii Roshchupkin emphasized.
Reference. Skansen is an ethnographic complex with zoo located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm (Sweden). It was founded by Artur Hazelius in 1891, and it the world first open-air museum. The animal collection of Skansen includes, first of all, the animals typical for Scandinavia, as well as several hundreds of exotic animals – representatives of other continents.
