The Melaka Zoo has recorded higher revenue from ticket sales for the first 10 months of this year at RM6.56 million compared with RM5.46 million collected in the same period last year, an increase of RM1.10 million or 19.41 per cent.
Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council (MPHTJ) president Mohd Rafee Ibrahim said the number of visitors during the same period had also increased by 81,449 or 25.36 per cent to 351,715 people compared with 270,266 recorded last year.
“This increase is in line with the new exhibit at the zoo, namely, a two-year-old white Bengal tigress named Elsa and the improvement of some of the 8.9-hectare zoo’s facilities.
“The zoo is also expected to receive new exhibits next year, including a hippopotamus and a male lion to replace the frail 29-year-old lion,” he told Bernama here.
Meanwhile, he said the zoo had recently submitted a proposal to the Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island Foundation in Perak to carry out a joint conservation programme.
He said based on the recommendation, the Melaka Zoo also intended to obtain another two pairs of orang utan from the Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island on loan between five and six years for breeding purposes as the zoom currently had only one orang utan.
-- BERNAMA
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