The Attica Zoological Park is a big zoo in Greece near Athens in the suburb of Spata. The Attica Zoological Park extends to a total area of 20 hectares, hosting more than 2000 animals from 350 different species. The Attica Zoological Park opened in May 2000, initially as a Bird Park, hosting the 3rd largest bird collection in the world. This enormous bird collection included 1100 birds from 300 different species. After it's opening in May 2000 this zoo has added some new animals to it's collections and today it has very wide variety of all kinds of animals.
The Attica Zoological Park has also dolphinarium that started 2010 when they got four dolphins bought from the Lithuanian Marine Institute. After that they have bought more dolphins and sea lions from various zoos and dolphinariums. The latest addition are dolphins bought from the Finnish Sarkanniemi dolphinarium that was closed last year. After several months of thinking Sarkanniemi sold their dolphins to the Attica Zoological Park. Some animal welfare activists have claimed that the Attica Zoological Park isn't paying enough attention to the animal welfare issues in their dolphinarium. The Greek courts haven't made any decisions about the issue and at the moment the Attica Zoological Park dolphinarium continues their business normally.
