The zoo of Nyíregyháza wins ’Europe’s best zoo’ award in its category

The zoo of Nyíregyháza, in draw with two Danish zoos, finished in first place in the ‘under five thousand visitors’ category according to the survey of an independent zoo analytical organisation.

Anthony Sheridan’s professional zoo foundation looked at a 100 European zoos divided into three categories by the number of visitors. “The zoo of Nyíregyháza finished in first place along with the zoo of Aalborg and Odensee in the category counting between 250 thousand and 500 thousand visitors.” said Mayor Ferenc Kovács and László Gajdos, the director of the zoo, at their press conference last Wednesday.

Mti.hu writes that in the same category, the zoo of Szeged finished in the 26th place, while the zoo of Veszprém in the 33rd place. In the highest category (zoos with more than a million visitors) Vienna was the absolute winner, while the Budapest Zoo took the 14th place.