Small dark eyes and a heart-shaped face: The Darmstadt Zoo Vivarium has released two young barn owls near Babenhausen in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district. The two birds slipped in the zoo in May this year and were then brought to a natural brood in mid -July, as the city now announced. They thus strengthen the veil’s owls living in the wild, which are very threatened in Hesse: the existence of the striking -looking owls has decreased by 90 percent in this century alone. In Darmstadt, the small owl species has been bred for several decades: 53 veils have been slipped in Darmstadt in the past few more than 40 years, which were later dilated. Most of them found a new home in southern Hesse, but also in the Westerwald and in the Aachen area, Darmstadt veil owls have already been accommodated. According to the announcement, the zoo worked with other actors for the latest release, for example with the Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Conservation. Turtle comeback with Frankfurt Aid View only in the Zoo in Darmstadt, which are then returned to nature. There are also regular release at the Frankfurt Zoo, for example of Feldhamstern or European Swamp turtles, said a spokeswoman for the zoo. The latter had already almost extinct in Hesse, but had a comeback through release. More on the topic of the past, the animals had already been exposed to the NIDDA, where a lot had been renatured, but also towards Darmstadt. The exact places are not revealed to further protect the turtles. Most recently, 15 European pullet turtles from the Frankfurt Zoo near Reinheim near Darmstadt were released, together with four other conspecifics of other origin. In front of the little turtles with the often yellow -specified throat are brought into nature, they will be raised in the zoo for about two to three years, the spokeswoman said. With this they spend significantly more time than the veil owls in Darmstadt – but can also be many decades old for this. Reinforcement for the murmur of crown exhaust projects there are also on the part of the Opel Zoos in Kronberg – for example with fur instead of feathers or tanks, there were also offspring in mid -May, namely at the European nerzen, which are among the most threatened petrol species in Europe. Six young animals were born. It is planned that this year’s youngsters will be released into the martens with the dark brown fur in the Baltic States. According to a spokeswoman, this should happen at the end of August when the young animals are a good three months old, but in total the zoo has passed on 68 young animals from its outdoor enclosure to the association for the preservation of the European nerz. In the past, for example, the animals strengthened the population of their peers in Saarland or in Lower Saxony. For other Kronberg animals, the wilderness will soon be going into the wilderness: European ground floor in the Czech Republic will be released at the end of July.
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