Valencia's zoo covers 25 acres north of the park created by the diversion of the River Turia's course. The landscape was created to house animals in as close to their native habitats as possible, and the zoo is especially known for its large collection of African animals.
The environment is designed so that visitors immediately feel as though they have been transported to Africa as they view animals almost barrier-free in landscapes typical to the savannah, Madagascar, and Equatorial Africa. Instead of separating different species, they coexist as they would in their native environments.
On the savannah, for example, lions, giraffes, antelopes, and rhinoceros all live together as they do in the wild.
Gorillas inhabit a dense equatorial forest, while hippopotami and crocodiles cool in the water. Bioparc is actively committed to sustainability of resources and to wildlife conservation, using solar panels to heat water, and recycling more than 95 percent of it.
