On July 12, 2012, Kyiv City Council adopted a Decision on the construction of oceanarium on the site of the unfinished premises for monkeys in Kyiv Zoo. This Decision was adopted not in accordance with the Ministry of Natural Resources and contrary to the Zoo territory development plan.
On September 21, 2012, Alexey Tolstoukhov resigned from the post of General Director of the Kyiv Zoo. Negotiations about a new director are still going on in Kyiv City Government Administration (KCGA). According to the mass-media, KCGA administration intends to appoint Eugene Kirilyuk as Director. He had held the post of director of the Zoo in 1998-2006.
Ukrainian NGOs are concerned that Eugene Kirilyuk will become a lobbyist of the building of oceanarium in the Zoo that will contain the Dolphins. Workers of the Zoo fear that in the future some other areas of the Zoo may be alienated to private enterprises. Continue reading
