Mykolaiv Zoo will spend over ₴6 million on animal feed for 2024

The municipal institution «Mykolaiv Zoo» has announced several tenders for the purchase of feed for animals for 2024, the total amount of which is more than 6 million hryvnias.

This is evidenced by the data of the public procurement system ProZorro, writes «NikVesti».

According to the tender documentation, they plan to spend 2 million hryvnias on the purchase of frozen fish. So, the zoo plans to provide the animals with 8.5 thousand kilograms of fish products.

At the same time, they are going to buy vegetables, fruits and nuts for more than 3 million hryvnias. For this amount, the zoo plans to purchase about 223,000 kilograms of products.

However, according to the tender documentation, the customer is going to use only 500 thousand hryvnias for the purchase of meat. Accordingly, the zoo needs only 2,000 kilograms of minced pork and beef.

It is worth noting that in September last year, the Mykolaiv Zoo collected funds for animal feed with the help of those who care. At that time, it was necessary to collect about 200 thousand hryvnias to provide food for the inhabitants of the zoo.

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

As part of the «Resolute Mykolaiv region» podcast series, an issue dedicated to the Mykolaiv Zoo was released. There, Volodymyr Topchyу told how caring people helped preserve the institution.

In April of this year, at one of the commissions of the Mykolaiv City Council, he reported that the institution has significant underfunding and the need for money for food for animals is covered by less than 50%.

In addition, the director of the zoo, Volodymyr Topchyy, said that he considers it wrong that it is proposed to allocate 90 million hryvnias of free funds from the city budget to education, and only 5 million to culture.

We will remind you that on March 17, 2022, the Mykolaiv Zoo received a large amount of humanitarian aid from the zoos of Europe.

It is also worth noting that the unexploded Russian projectile that fired at the Mykolaiv Zoo on February 27 will be exhibited in the museum near the menagerie.