Budapest Zoo among Europe’s best

The Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden became the first among the Hungarian zoos and the 17th best one of the 110 leading zoos in Europe.

According to Hvg, zoos are not officially rated in the world, but there is a widely-accepted measuring system able to compare the leading zoos in Europe. The founding father of the system is a British businessman, Anthony Sheridan, who, in fact, became very successful in the electronics industry. However, when he retired in 2007,

he decided to visit Europe’s leading zoos and created criteria to evaluate and rank them.

His list, the detailed description of his method and some further experiences of his were published in 2011 in a book titled What Zoos Can Do. Since then, Sheridan has been visiting the most important zoos in Europe in order to regularly update his list.

According to a statement, he visited the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden a couple of days ago, where he gave a speech about the actual trends of the development of the European zoos and mentioned his list as well.

On his most recent list – like on the previous ones -, the Budapest Zoo stands in the first place among the zoos in Hungary. He analysed and ranked 110 European zoos, among which there are four Hungarian ones. The zoo in Budapest received 189 while those in Nyíregyháza, Szeged and Veszprém received 189, 157 and 113 points based on