At Easter, Barcelona Zoo is opening two new restaurant areas, El Xaloc and La Morera, which will offer self-service food, including menus based on Mediterranean, healthy, organic and zero-kilometre cuisine. El Xaloc is located in the Sahel area, while La Morera is in the future Mediterranean area. Guests will be able to eat on the terraces of the two restaurants or take their food to any of the Zoo's picnic areas.
These new gastronomic points aim to promote sustainable practices and respect for the environment among visitors to the park. In this sense, the Zoo has joined the 'Beure Sense Plástic' challenge, promoted by Barcelona City Council, which encourages good practices in the catering service. In the Zoo's case, priority will be given to the use of biodegradable elements and the elimination of single-use plastics. In short, it allows the Barcelona Zoo to continue with the implementation of its Healthy Catering Plan, a key tool to improve and enhance the visitor experience, linking catering to sustainability and proximity.
The new Healthy Catering Plan is based on a gastronomic offer that promotes the Mediterranean diet, incorporating balance and health as dietary criteria and reducing food protein. The basis of the gastronomic offer is seasonal food, local, organic and ecological products, and offering alternatives for food intolerances and different sensitivities, such as vegetarianism and veganism.
An Easter Week full of activities at the Zoo
This Easter, the Zoo presents a whole range of activities aimed at children and families, with interesting proposals such as the third activity of the Zoo Club's 'Passaport de Natura', an initiative aimed at members of this group. On this occasion, through the activity 'Va de cacas', the participants will work on the importance of this type of traces and all that can be learned about the fauna from them.
These days, as a novelty, there will be other free family activities included in the entrance ticket, such as meetings with keepers where they will show how the Zoo works for the welfare and conservation of, for example, giant tortoises, bison and hippos, or the activity "The Invertebrate Laboratory", an opportunity to learn about the world of these species, often small but essential for the ecosystems.
Finally, the spring camp 'Save the animals', from 3 to 5 April, and aimed at children aged 5 to 14 years, due to the success of the proposal has extended the number of places to 72 and have already been exhausted. The centre offers a varied programme of activities related to the conservation of biodiversity where children will learn to love nature and discover the tasks carried out at the Zoo.
The Zoo, committed to sustainable mobility
The Zoo is also opening two new car parks for personal mobility vehicles located in the grounds of the enclosure. Visitors arriving at the Zoo on bicycles, skateboards or electric scooters will be able to park them in these spaces, securing them with locks. The car parks are equipped with chargers for electric scooters, powered by photovoltaic panels.
