Budakeszi Game Preserve, Wildlife park in Budakeszi, Hungary.
Budakeszi Game Preserve is a 26-hectare wildlife park on Vörös-hegy hill in Budakeszi, managed by Pilisi Parkerdő Zrt. It holds 32 animal species and about 120 individuals in natural forest enclosures, including red deer, wild boar, mouflon, lynx, grey wolf, brown bear, and water buffalo, plus domestic breeds such as mangalica pigs and racka sheep.
The park opened on 29 April 1979, run by the Pilisi Állami Parkerdőgazdaság, predecessor of today's Pilisi Parkerdő Zrt. Its founding followed a 1972 forestry congress in Buenos Aires, where a Hungarian proposal put public-welfare forestry on the world agenda. On the Vörös-hegy, oak renewal was finished and quarrying ended by 1974; plans from 1976 laid out about 6.2 km of footpaths, 7 rain shelters, 6 rest stops and 13 fire pits. In 1992 management passed to the Budapesti Erdészet.
The park has hosted school groups since opening and runs a Birds and Trees Day each year. A peasant yard at the edge of the reception area keeps poultry, sheep, goats, grey cattle, herding dogs and donkeys, showing the animals of a traditional Hungarian farmstead.
The park covers 26 hectares on Vörös-hegy, reached by an asphalted access road since 1985, so it can be visited in any weather. About 6.2 km of footpaths, 7 rain shelters, 6 rest areas and 13 fire pits were laid out in the wooded grounds. A 12-metre lookout tower and a palisade fort on the Szilfa clearing stand along the routes.
The park opened on 29 April 1979 under the Pilisi Állami Parkerdőgazdaság, predecessor of today's Pilisi Parkerdő Zrt. Its first animals were red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, mouflon and wild boar, kept in enclosures laid out along roughly 6.2 km of footpaths on a 20-hectare site.
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