Bioparc Fuengirola champions a new model of zoo based on respect for nature and the preservation of natural species, a model which has already established itself as a flagship for Europe.

What Bioparc Fuengirola represents is a different concept of zoo. A zoological park where animals live side-by-side, recreating their natural habitat and so fostering their development at all levels.

Bioparc Fuengirola stands out, among other aspects, for its architectural design as an “immersion zoo”, plunging visitors into the animals’ native environment. The whole centre is intended as a stroll through an all-surrounding recreation of the creatures’ original habitat, providing a solution of continuity between the physical spaces occupied by the public and by the animals, with the aim of expressing some of the magic involved in walking through the woodlands and discovering their inhabitants.

A faithful representation of a Tropical Woodland

The habitats of Africa, Asia and Madagascar are recreated by the themed design of embankments, waterfalls, rocks, trunks and even realistic trees. The creation of the baobab tree, one of the largest artificial trees in the world, standing 25 metres high, set the park’s designers a real challenge. It has now become a landmark of the centre and of the town of Fuengirola itself.

Emblematic species

Since it was first planned, the Bioparc was intended to house species whose reproduction was of the utmost importance. To this end a selective collection plan was implemented, with the construction of areas specially designed for this purpose. A total of 130 different species and over 1400 individual animals are now in residence.

Bioparc is home to such emblematic species as the Sumatra Tiger, featured on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species, in the highest category of “Critically Endangered”, the only group of breeding gorillas in Andalusia, a family of Borneo Orang-utans and Sri – Lanka Leopards, among many others.

July and August: a jungle to explore by moonlight

The warm summer nights on the Costa del Sol offer visitors an opportunity unique anywhere in Spain or in Europe, as Bioparc Fuengirola is the only such establishment on the continent to open its entire premises until midnight in July and August, the only other zoo in the world to do this being in Singapore.

Every summer it recreates the effect of moonlight using a complicated system of special illumination. This allows visitors, as they stroll through the zoo, to discover the secrets of the mysterious night-time world of the tropical woodlands.

Contact Us at:

Avda. Camilo José Cela, 6 – 8. 29640 Fuengirola, Málaga, España.
Tel: 952 666 301
Fax: 952 586 892

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