Dubai Crocodile Park Completion Expected 2016
After being first
announced in 2012 Dubai is about to start work on their Crocodile Park. The 10
million AED has an expected completion date towards the end of 2016.
Located near the new
Dubai Safari Zoo it will offer another attraction for the millions of tourists who visit
Dubai each year. Covering an are of some 20,000 square meters in is expected to
house around 200 *crocodiles of different species.
It has been stated
that the main focus will be upon education which will be a welcome relief from
Crocodile Parks elsewhere where the emphasis usually appears to be on teasing
them in pseudo shows. The Crocodilians are for the most part hardy and inoffensive
animals and require next to no handling.
Khalifa Abdullah
Hareb has stated the facility will provide "crocodiles for a hassle free
living, interaction and reproduction," and "the crocodile park would
strengthen the role of the UAE in the protection of endangered animals."
Mohamed Oueslati
goes on further and says "The visitor can discover the various stages of
crocodiles natural life such as egg laying, hatching, growing, breeding, family
life …etc in various angles of relaxing, crawling, swimming and diving," and
added "All activities will be held in the strict respect of the course of
the animal natural life without considering any external or artificial element
for added attraction,"
Though this will be
the first specialised Crocodile Park in the UAE they have been kept here since
the 1960's and bred here and more recently in Dubai Mall.
* It has been said that the crocodiles will be imported from Madagascar which has the famed 'Ankarana Cave Crocodiles'. There are other cave dwelling crocodiles in Gabon and Mauritania.
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