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Elfenau estate. It seemed at the time that the terrain would be more adequate for a simple animal garden, but it was nonetheless the site chosen by the city council in 1927 to build the park. The design were put on the table and an association was founded to find partners for the construction of the zoo. The idea of creating an association proved useful, as it had more than 1800 members only two years later, and publicity in the cinema and on the street permitted to gain approximately 50,000 francs to help the construction. The association submitted a final draft in 1933 with a plan that respected the natural landscape of the
Elfenau estate. All was going well, but dissident voices in the population started to have concern on the Elfenau estate site, considering the Dählhölzli one to be of better quality. The Berneses finally voted on the subject at the end of the year 1935 and the Dählhölzli was finally chosen.
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European animals. The motto of his successor, Prof. Hannes Sägesser, was "the Bernesers Zoo", who managed the park from 1969 until his death in 1991. He brought more exotic animals to the zoo and opened the zoopedagogy center to help children, a facility still in operation today. Dr. Max Müller was the fifth person to occupy the position, as he opened the children-zoo with farm animals and he further brought the trend of exotic animals in the zoo.
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The third person to manage the park was professor Monika Meyer-Holzapfel, from 1943 to 1969. Many new enclosures were built at that time and the number of vivariums also increased. A new vision on the place of zoos in the conservation efforts took place at that time and the
Tierpark Bern participated
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Europeans animals in the city of Bern was first bought in 1871 by a group of optimists with an idea, and a first small park was opened on Engehaldenstrasse in 1873 to house deer, bison and many small animals. It closed a few years later in 1876 due to a lack of funding.
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Schildger is the director of the Dählhözli Tierpark Bern, under the slogan "More space for less animals". The park officially became a registered scientific organisation under the norms of the EU in 2010, which facilitate the conservation efforts and exchanges with other
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