Zoological Society of Ireland, Dublin Zoo
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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Zoological Society of Ireland, Dublin Zoo |
| Phoenix Park, Dublin 8, Ireland | |
| Tel: 353 (0)1 474 8900 | |
| Fax: 353 (0)1 677 1660 | |
| Email: sbutler@dublinzoo.ie | |
| Web site: www.dublinzoo.ie | |
| Latitude: 53.3631554 | |
| Longitude: -6.3150182 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1833 |
| Ownership: | The Council of the Zoological Society private, with state backing |
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| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork-individual, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Zoo Associations (BIAZA and EAZA) |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| Director: | Leo Oosterweghel |
| Curator: | Stephen Butler |
| Contact person: | Stephen Butler |
| Total Staff: | approx 50 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 6 |
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| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | near sea level |
| Soil type: | clay loam on limestone bedrock |
| Aspect: | Open, in parkland, heavily planted site |
| Total area: | 28 ha |
| Area heated: | animal houses only |
| Other sites of collection: | sister site, at [link id='3463'] in County Cork |
| Weather records | Are records kept ? (Y/N) |
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| Special collections: (i.e. ICCP International Conifer Conservation Programme; IPGRI International Plant Genetic Resources Institute; NCCPG National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens; SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest) | |
| Special collection 1: For each collection please give Nos. of Genera, species, taxa, accessions & plants. Also any official status. | |
| Special collection 2: Please add a row for each collection. | |
| Record Keeping: | Unknown |
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| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Do you have a Herbarium? | |
| Do you have a Library? | |
| Do you have Research facilities? | |
| Do you produce Publications? | |
| Do you identify plant material for the General Public? Internal Identification only? | |
| Teaching and Education: | plants highlighted within education where possible, many plants have signs for identification |
| Interpretation: | some plant labels, occasional displays as part of promotion or education programme |
| Friends Organisation: | volunteer helpers in education only approx 50 |
| Visitor facilities: | shops and restaurant |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | as a member or on payment, all year |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 09.30 to 18.00 or dusk in winter |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Initial planting was as a garden, rose beds etc, now themed to be as naturalistic as possible, creating a green background and pleasant ambience for visitors plus planting within exhibits to recreate natural habitat. Within large scale plantings there is scope for more interesting plants. Plants now seen as just as valuable as animal exhibits. | |
| Location map | |
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