It is planned to spend ₴2.8 million on the protection of the Mykolaiv Zoo in 2025

2.8 million hryvnias are planned to be spent on round-the-clock protection of the territory and objects of the Mykolaiv Zoo in 2025.

This is evidenced by the data of the public procurement system ProZorro, write NikVesti.

The customer of the service is the municipal institution «Mykolaiv Zoo». In total, the contractor will have to provide security at eight posts on the territory of the zoo in the period from January 1 to December 31, 2025. These are warehouses, aviaries, playgrounds, cafes, administrative and household buildings, hiding rooms, cages, toilets, swimming pools, memorial signs, flower beds and others.

Currently, the process of submitting offers from future participants is ongoing, the contractor will be chosen after November 11.

As a reminder, the municipal institution «Mykolaiv Zoo» plans to build three enclosures and repair the glass roof of the «Island of Animals». Currently, relevant projects have already been developed and the search for donors to finance these works is ongoing.

Animal feeding at the Mykolaiv Zoo

Back in September 2022, the Mykolaiv Zoo collected funds for animal feed with the help of those who cared. Then we managed to collect about 200 thousand hryvnias.

Simultaneously with the beginning of the full-scale war, Ukrainians began to buy tickets to the zoo online in order to financially support the institution. At that time, the city was under constant shelling and people could not visit the zoo.

A year later, in April 2023, the director of the zoo, Volodymyr Topchii, reported that the institution has significant underfunding and the need for money for food for animals is covered by less than 50%.

Already in October 2024, the municipal institution «Mykolaiv Zoo» announced four tenders for the supply of feed for animals during 2025 for 8 million hryvnias.

In the same month, the deputies of the city council additionally allocated 2.5 million hryvnias from the city budget for the purchase of fodder for the animals of the Mykolaiv Zoo.