The Tirana Zoo, reconceptualized and transformed according to European standards of animal spaces, will be ready for children and visitors by 2021.

This is what the Municipality of Tirana informs, adding that the new project of the Municipality, which is in its final phase, provides spaces for services and facilities necessary for visitors of the Zoo, recreational facilities where there are green spaces usable for picnics, as well as playgrounds for children, but there will also be educational facilities for students and students who particularly study the animal world.

The Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, who together with a group of children visited the Zoo this Sunday, was surprised by the pace, but also the quality of the works for this project.

"It will be a very pleasant surprise for the children of Tirana, Albania but also of the region. We will end the year with one of the projects we have in mind, a project that for years the Prime Minister, since he was mayor, has been worried about, the Zoo. It was the joint work of the Municipality with the Government that we managed to give children today one of the most qualitative spaces, totally transformed. It is no longer the space where the wolf and the fox stood at 20 square feet. Today there is a huge space for animals, a standard that is in the whole European Union, as well as for children and visitors," said Veliaj.

The Mayor said that the autumn season will start with the greening and planting campaign. "Starting from the parking lot, to the water areas, to the space of monkeys and soft animals, to what is called Farmville, a part of the village, or even the wild animals, it has been worked with a lot of quality. I can't wait to get to the end, to take advantage of the approaching rainy season for the greenery, we will turn the whole of October-November into a big planting campaign and then close the year with one of the most beautiful gifts for the children of Tirana,” he declared.

The project envisages the drying up of existing lakes and the creation of three new lakes. From the new acquired area will be added the spaces available for housing the animals.