Planète Sauvage, Zoo in Port-Saint-Père, France.
Planète Sauvage spans 85 hectares and houses approximately 1,100 animals from 120 different species, offering visitors a safari experience through a 10-kilometer vehicle track.
Opened on 1 May 1992 as Safari Africain, the park was founded by Monique and Dany Laurent, who had already created the zoo of La Boissière-du-Doré in 1984. It was renamed Planète Sauvage in 1998, the year a sea lion complex was built after the environment ministry refused to import four bottlenose dolphins. Compagnie des Alpes bought the park in 2005 and sold it to Looping Group on 22 May 2015 for 15.4 million euros.
The park's name, adopted in 1998, replaced Safari Africain. The pedestrian sector includes the Village de Kirikou, themed on Michel Ocelot's cartoon character with his approval, and the Sentier des Incas, opened in 2016 for South American species. The Cité marine presents bottlenose dolphins with educational aims: educate, study and protect.
The park is split between a 10 km safari track driven in your own car and a pedestrian section, so allow time for both. A 250 m suspension bridge 5 m above the ground crosses the macaque territory. Guided 4x4 off-road trips go closer to the animals, and the bivouac stays place visitors inside the park overnight.
The park's name changed in 1998 from Safari Africain to Planète Sauvage, the year a sea lion complex was built after the environment ministry refused to import four bottlenose dolphins from Tenerife. The 250-metre suspension bridge, five metres above the ground, was added in 2003 to observe a troop of macaques.
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