Planète Sauvage

About

Planète Wilde is a zoological park located on the French Atlantic coast in Port-Saint-Père, near Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique department. Founded in 1992 by Monique and Dany Laurent and known until 1998 as Safari Africain, it is operated by the Compagnie des Alpes for ten years, between 2005 and 2015. Since then, it has been owned by the Looping Group, whose main shareholder is the PAI Partners investment fund.

It covers an area of about eighty-five hectares, in which approximately 1,100 animals of 120 species live, and consists of a safari part which can be visited by car and a pedestrian part which includes in particular one of the two delphinariums of metropolitan France, where are presented great dolphins. Since 2010, its annual attendance has ranged from 216 000 to 292 000 visitors. Although not a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the park collaborates with European researchers and funds conservation associations.

The park is also known for presenting the village of Bamboula, a human zoo, in 1994; for questions related to the accommodation of dolphins...