Surabaya Zoo, An Alteration for City’s Tourism Spot
September 20th, 2006
Almost all of the zoos in Europe have some collections of fauna from Surabaya Zoo because it has become a centre for Fauna Conservation.
Surabaya Zoo [or Kebun Binatang Surabaya/ KBS] has been functioned so far by people as a recreational place only. Out of this, KBS has three other functions, those are educational, research, and conservational purposes of animals. It is related to the fauna collection and the function of KBS as a centre for Fauna Conservation.
Originally, KBS was activated by some Dutch people in 1916 that had hobbies to collect flora and fauna. At that time they named it as the Botanical Park and Surabaya Zoo.
In 1970’s it was said that KBS had been the biggest zoo in the South East Asia even though if it is compared to Jakarta Ragunan Zoo, the total amount of the animal collections are not really different.
 The present collections of KBS are 4691 animals from 307 species which are known from the three month report I [April 2005]. Most foreign visitors love to see komodos and babi rusa. Komodo is the ancient animal that still exists in Indonesia.
KBS has 32 komodos that 11 of them are adult, 5 males and 6 females. The other 21 are young and baby komodos. The oldest is 25 years old and weghts 100 kgs. Babi rusa is also interesting to see because this is a rare animal and still controversial whether it belongs to swine [babi] or deer [rusa].
KBS which is located at the gate of Surabaya has attracted 977.901 visitors so far [July 2005 report]. KBS has always tried to served better by offering various items and programs for the visitors. The items offered by the KBS management include basic, competence, gift and special offers. Those offers should be enjoyed by 40 people at least.
Ticket :
 KBS is opened everyday on work hours. The price of the ticket is Rp. 7500 for 4 years up. For a group of students [at least 30 persons] get 2% discount and 20% for public. If you want to visit in group or want to know about the offers, just contact the marketing and promotion department of KBS [031] 5674430.
Suggestion and Prohibition :
When you visit KBS, it is forbidden to feed and disturb the animals or bring your pets. Not allowed to litter because most of the thrash are made by the visitors.
Texts of Photograph:
1. Surabaya Zoo, Alteration for city’s tourism spot
2. Some animal collections in KBS
3. Leafy situation in KBS because of reforestation
source : www.suarasurabaya.net
Entry Filed under: East Java News
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