Ranua Wildlife Park
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Ranua Wildlife Park is a zoo that opened in 1983 in the municipality of Ranua
, Lapland, Finland
. It is the northernmost zoo in the world. The zoo's animals consist of approximately 50 wild animal species and 200 individuals, including top predators such as lynx, bears and wolves but also European moose and deers. The zoo has Finland's only polar bears in artificial snow.
The Ranua Wildlife Park is an accredited member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
(EAZA).
Ranua
Ranua is a municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .The municipality is unilingually Finnish...
, Lapland, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. It is the northernmost zoo in the world. The zoo's animals consist of approximately 50 wild animal species and 200 individuals, including top predators such as lynx, bears and wolves but also European moose and deers. The zoo has Finland's only polar bears in artificial snow.
The Ranua Wildlife Park is an accredited member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
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(EAZA).