27th March 2013

welcome to

• We are located in Darica (border town of Kocaeli city just near by of Istanbul ) which is a seashore town with green lands and fine wheather. Park is about 8 hectars where an additional of 5 hectars will be added for new areas (addition to Apes&Monkeys, addition to African Savannah, new Asian Region, new Elephants Region) between 2014-2019.

• We exhibit around 250 animal species with a population of around 3.000 animals where over 180 species are endangered and over 60 are in CR-EN-VU-NT categories of IUCN. We host around 20 Anatolian endangered species. The number of animal species will be 280 species by the end of 2019.

• We host above 600 plant species with a population over 8.000. Within the park, more than 250 of them are tree species and 70% of the collection is exotic. The plant collection includes medical plants including production.

• We are the first and only private Zoo which is a full-member of EAZA over 14 years and we are the most experienced zoo within this context in Turkey.

• We are keeping the biggest animal and plant collection within national zoos in Turkey.• We have an animal hospital and one of the largest quarantine area in accordance with European

standards in Turkey.• We are the only licenced zoo in Istanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Duzce and Yalova cities (populates around

25 million people) • We are also licenced as a Wild Animal Conservation Rehabilitation and Rescue Center of Marmara

Region by the Ministry of Forestry and Water. • Number of visitors are growing each year (2009: 160.000, 2010 : 335.000, 2011 : 535.000, 2012 :

650.000, 2013 target 715.000, where we have a social responsibility of disabled, poor and special segments of the society needs aid so we have around 250.000 visitors unpaid each year.

About FYZOO

- Ex-situ conservation of animal and plant species - Efforts to improve quality and management standards of National Zoos and Aquaria by cooperating with General

Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks- Working on establishing a National/Eurasian Association of Zoological Gardens and Aquaria- Collaborating with Governorship of Kocaeli, National Parks of Kocaeli, Metropolitan Municipality of Kocaeli, TEMA of

Kocaeli, Universities of Kocaeli, Istanbul, Thrace and Duzce, together with local people, scouts, hunters, for the in-situ conservation development projects of Kocaeli region by analysis of regional biodiversity, management planning of endangered regional animal and plat species, establishing a botanical garden and an arboretum with herbarium and establishing re-introduction breeding stations for endangered wild animal species

- Cooperating with various foundations, associations and other establishments which are active in the field of nature and environment conservation (TEMA, Doga Dernegi, TRAKUS, Hayrettin Karaca Vakfi, Turk Tabiatini Koruma Dernegi)

- Supporting international conservation projects through EAZA ( European Assosiation of Zoos and Aquaria)- Collaborating with several Universities in scientific studies such as researches, thesis and case studies and

establishments like TUBITAK including in-vitro conservation projects when needed- Educational activities to improve awareness and knowledge on Nature and Environment Conservation, Biological

Diversity, Conservation of Endangered Species and Botanics with interactive seminars and guided tour contents linked with National Education Programme for all schools in Istanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Duzce and Yalova with capacity of upto 300.000 students per year (2011 and 2012 realised : 175.000 and 150.000 students/year)

- Collaborative events with Fine Arts Faculty of Kocaeli University and various individual artisits (ebru art, wood art, painting, musical performances, theathers, etc.) on the basis of nature, animals and plants themes

- Carrying out social and cultural activities (painting, composition, photography, theater, wall painting, debates, seminars, presentations, etc) with Cultural and Social Centers, Schools and Establishments under conservation, education themes

FYZOO missions

- FYZOO Education Department consists of an education manager, 2 education officers and 4-12 guides. - Every year, education department signatures protocol with five different cities’ directorate of national

education(İstanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Duzce and Yalova). So that schools can visit to our zoo without any problems.

- In accordance with protocol, we prepare interactive education seminars about Protecting Naturel Life, Biodiversity, Conservation of Endangered Species and Botanics at five different age categories.

We tell importance of natural life and conserving her to the students. Than, they visit to our zoo with guides. Generally, training content includes to love of nature, protection of evironment, human effects of evironmental pollution , extincting animal , how living things are affected by pollution , the importance of water and naturel life-cycle .

- In 2010, 140.000 students visited to our zoo. In 2011, 175.000 and in 2012, 150.000.- Annual zoo members is our responsibility where we have over 7.800 members (members pay %10 less than 2

invidual entrance fees for the whole year), creates over 4% of total turnover.

FYZOO Education Department

- This year, we have created new education activities for students. ● Firstly, students are both informed and entertained orienteering games. We created some questions about animals and botanics than gave each questions to different students and they tried to find answers of the questions in the zoo. ● Another education activity is discovering insects within the park. While students were visiting to zoo within biologist, dug the soil in certain areas and tried to find bugs. Than biologist give some informations about soil, insect and botanic to students.

-This year, we added new educations seminar for disabled students. That seminar is about living things around us. We were teached interesting information about how can we give the seminar to disable students.-When schools’ groups visited to our zoo, they were taking seminar about applied botanics. Than groups visited in botanical tours within guide. Students could learn how do they grow plants. They prepare soil, put seeds and water them and ventilate the soil guided by our gardeners.-The information boards are put in front of the cages and plants for having information about animals and plants, so the visitors both can find their directions and read a lot of small informations about nature with prepared routing boards.

FYZOO Education Department

- We organize competitions with different directorate of national education on different age categories for creating awareness on topic as evironmental protection, love of nature and extincting animals…etc.

- In hobby park which we have created in children zoo in FYZOO, we prepare interesting funny activity as figuring, painting, sand painting, T-shirt painting, the art of marbling, face painting… etc.

- During this year, we organized instructive and educative activities with directorate of national education, the ministry of forest and water and TEMA… etc. For example, in last forest week, 6000 students visited to our zoo by free and we gave a tree to each students. Than there was a theatre show for students about forest week.

FYZOO Education Department

- We have 2 stores, a large playground, and 3 cafeterias, 2 kiosks all run by us.

- Winter period staff : 12, season period staff : 38.- Customer Satisfaction is our first priority so we are generous about size but prices is compatible with state

school cantinas in cafeterias. Packed items are same priced in markets. Our stores is also nearly 10% cheaper than GrossMarket Chains. Hygen is our other top priority in the park.

FYZOO Sales Areas Management Department

- We have more than 410 SKUs in our stores where over 10% is by our own brand (cups, thermos cups, hats, T-shirts and raincoats, keyrings, postcards, umbrellas and magnets). We sell also 21 animal and plant related books written by our founder Faruk Yalcin. Stores are making 4% of total turnover. Average sales is 6,5 TL/receipt.

- We have more than 281 SKUs in our cafeterias including breakfast items. (total capacity 550 persons). Cafeterias are making 12% of total turnover. Average sales is 6 TL/receipt.

- Our playground is around 3.000 m2 have 8 units which tokens are used (electrical safari cars, electrical bumping cars, butterfly, pony trips, boat trip, adventure land, synthetic ice skating, electrical minibus trip ). 5D cinema and bouncing ball will be added with token sales next year. Playground is making 6% of total turnover.

- Kiosks are making 4% of total turnover. Average sales is 2,5 TL/receipt. • We have got 2 popcorn-beverage-tea-ice cream kiosk type sales points. • We sell 110 SKUs.

- Responsibility of cleaning restroom areas (10 where 3 are for disabled), 3 guesthouses, cleaning of the office area and cleaning all of the outside viewing windows in the animal enclosures are belong to this department.- We are applying daily customer satisfaction surveys (both from schools and from individual visitors) besides internet (web site and facebook/twitter pages), satisfaction level is more than 97%.

FYZOO Sales Areas Management Department

FYZOO 2010-2011 New Regions & New Species - Lynxes - Red Foxes

- Wolves- Corsac Foxes- Porcupines- Racoons- Bears- Pony Horses- Lama Lamas- Goats, Sheeps- Pumas- Jaguars- Penguins- Alligators- Gibbons - Small Clawned Otters- Suricatas- Praire Dogs

- Fallow Deer Region-Tortoise Region-North Tropic Region-Australian Region-South American Region B-Madagascar Region-New Aquarium Exhibit-African Savannah Region-Koatis-Parrots, Cockatoos, Lories-Africa 2 Region-Central kitchen area-Yellow mongoses-South American Region A-South Tropic Region-Quarantine Region-Hatchery Region

- 3 Education Centers- Synthetic Ice Skating- New Administrative Building- Prayhouse, Infirmary, Baby Care

Rooms - Camera System- Announcement System- New Management Software- New Entrance Area- New Shop- Cafeterias-Shops-Play Ground

Improvements

FYZOO 2011-2012 New Regions & New Species- Massai Giraffe (EEP)- Partner for Grant’s Zebra- Nyala (ESB)- Sitatunga (ESB)- Red Kangaroo (ESB)- Red Necked Wallaby- Parma Wallaby- Partner for Puma- Partner for Fallow Deer- Partnerfor Military Macaw (ESB)- Partner for Nandu- Partner for Lynx (ESB)- Partners for Asian Small Clawed

Otters- Partner for Jaguar (ESB)- Partners for Llamas- Pygmy Hippopotamus (EEP)- Silvery-cheeked hornbill- Cattle Egret- African Marabou (ESB)- Hamerkop (ESB)- Chinese Muntjac- Partners for Currasows

- Jenday and Sun Parakeet- Partner for Griffon Vulture (ESB)- Partner for Rhinoceros Hornbill (ESB)- Kookaburra- Additional Scarlet Ibis- Additional Northern Bald Ibis (EEP)- Partners for Black Storks (ESB)- Golden Jackal- South American Tapir (EEP)- Mara- Ring-tailed Coati- Capybara- Suricata- Prairie Dog- Black lemur (EEP)- Red ruffed lemur (EEP)- Black-white ruffed lemur (EEP)- 5 New Anatolian and tropical Fish

Species- 5 Species of Butterflies- 12 Species of Finches- Diamond-backed turtles* : expected in 2013

FYZOO 2012-2013 New Regions & New Species

- Partner for Vasa Parrot - Partner for Inca Cockatoo

- Partner for Moluccan Cockatoo (EEP)- Partner for Scarlet Maccaw- Partner for Mexican Millitary Maccaw (ESB)- Partner for East African (gray) Crowned Crane- Partner for Chinese Muntjac - Partner for White Pelicans- Partner for African Spoonbills- Great Cormorant- Anatolian Wild Duck species- Red-crowned Crane (EEP)- Abdim Stork- Yellow billed Stork (ESB)- Saddle billed Strork (ESB)- Pygmy Hippo (Male, EEP)- South American Tapir (Female, EEP)- White cheeked gibbon- Brown Capuchin Monkey

- Common (white-eared) Marmoset

- Cotton-top Tamarin (EEP)

- Squirrel Monkey (EEP)

- Silvery Marmoset

- Goeldii’s marmoset

- Partners for Golden lion-headed marmoset

- Azara’s Agouti

- Hairy Armadillo

- Partner for Golden Eagle

- Partner for European Black Vulture (EEP)

-- Partner for Sparrow Hawk

-- Partner for Black Vulture

- Partner for Egyptian Vulture (EEP)

- 1st Enlargement of African Savannah Exhibit

- New South America A Exhibit

- New exhibits for Emu

- New exhibits for Cranes

- Exhibit enlargement for Anatolian Bear

- Exhibit enlargement for Black Swan and Kookaburra

-Exhibit enlargements for three Flamingo Species

-New Play-Ground Area

- Additional Cafeteria and Rest Area

: already arrived

Park will be enlarged from 8 hectars to 13 hectars ( First Phase : 30 hectars New Asian Region and New Reptiles House)-Indian Rhinos (EEP), Axis Deers, Nilgais-Cheetahs (EEP)-Young Amur Tigers (EEP) (possibly in 2013)- Dholes (ESB)-Striped Hyenas (ESB)-Monitors, Boa Snakes, Yellow Anacondas, Salamanders-White faced Saki Monkeys (ESB)-Ocelots-Caracals (ESB) (in 2013)

( Second Phase : 10 hectars New Monkeys and Apes Region and 2nd Enlargement of African Savannah)-Orangutans (EEP) , Mandrill (EEP)( Third Phase : 10 hectars New Asian Elephants Region )-Asian Elephants (EEP)

-Two New Additional Cafeterias and Rest Areas-Renovation of Existing Monkeys Region-Renovations of Puma, Lion, Amur Tiger, Caracal, Penguin Exhibits-Renovation of Reptile House, Aquarium and South Tropic Region

2014-2019 New Regions and the New Species

Turkey is one of the few countries in the world, having a rich diversity of flora and fauna located in three different climate zone with three different vegetation geography (Euro-Sibirian, Meditteranean, Iran-Turan). Due to climatologic and geological changes, Anatolia had been a protected shelter for many species. It has also been a genetic center especially for sub species and sub-sub species, as it has been a corridor between continents.

26% of the country covered by forests and 93% of them are natural forests. Turkey is a highland country with an average height around 1.300 meters. Mountains along North and South Anatolia are divided by stream river valleys. Intensive diversity of flora and fauna with various microclimates can be observed due to climatologic and geomorphologic structure.

Turkey has 25% of all endemic plants in the World. Nearly 30% of agri-plants in the World are originally spread from this land. Today, Anatolia has around 12.000 plant species where 3.500 of them (35%) are endemic. 9,000 of them are phanerograms and ferns. 600 of them are ligneous where 80 are endemic. Around 800 are geofit plants.

Those numbers are very close to the total numbers of species in the whole European continent, showing the importance of Anatolia to the World for conserving its biodiversity and plant and animal diversity. As approved by a lot of researchers, Anatolia has been a paradies of rich subspecies.

Importance of Anatolia

Ethnobotanical studies reveal regions of the world's oldest plant domestication around BC 7.000, in Catalhoyuk, Can Hasan, Hacıiar, Mersin and Cayonu. Anatolian flora is covered by cultivated wild relatives of important agricultural plant species and genetic diversity of this species.(wheat, chickpeas, lentils, apples, pears, apricots, chestnuts, pistachios). One can say 30% of all field crops originated from Anatolia.

In the forest ecosystem in our country has 20 species of wild fruit trees, more than 10 species of vegetable, 14 species of medicinal plant, 5 species of forage plant, 17 ornamental plants.

Anatolia host about 800 geofit plants (bulbous, tuberous, rhizome). Our country is the center of origin of more than 30 fruit species. Species of cherry, apricot, almond and fig fatherland is Anatolia, in addition to tulips, orchids, crocuses and snowdrops.

Anatolia host about 19.000 invertebrate species (4000 of them are endemic) and about 1500 vertebrate species which has a nearly the diversity of species in the whole European continent.

At the bottom of the world's most important migration routes in our country host 460 resident and migratory bird species. All the European continent has 560 species. In addition, approximately, in our country 480 marine fish species, 236 freshwater fish species (70 endemic), 141 reptiles (16 endemic) and 202 mammals (37 percent endemic) and 37 amphibians that are specified.

Currently, 12% of birds, %22 of mammals, 28% of reptiles, %30 of amphibians, %37 of invertebrates and 70% of the plants are under threat of extinction.

Importance of Anatolia

Importance of KocaeliAs Kocaeli is the neighbour of Istanbul and because of increasing urbanisation and heavy industrialisation, threats to shrinkage of biodiversity, habitats and nature need critical attention. Kocaeli is on the migration way of birds, conservation of nature (forest lands, the Gulf, Sapanca lake, etc) needs to be planned and actions should be taken. As predators are in the highest level of food cycle in ecosystems, they are critically important for the cycle. Wolves, Lynxs, Bears should be conserved within their habitats due to this reason. Herbivores like Roe deers, Red deers, Fallow Deers should also be conserved as their population is critically decreased in the region. Population increase in Herbivores will also improve the population of Carnivores and supports Kocaeli in hunting tourism by controlled hunting seasons.Kocaeli with 3.505 km2 of land, its mountains cover 18,8 % of its land. Samanli Mountains are in the West-East direction with 130 kms long and 30 kms wide. 6,6% are wetlands (lake, the Gulf area and creeks and their wetland surroundings. Platos covers 74,6 % of the land and are generally erosed plains cut by many valleys caused by many small creeks. From North to South, Euro-Sibirian (Blacksea) vegetation starts to meet Mediterranean and/or Dry land (Iran-Touran) vegetations. Lands between Samanlı Mountains in the South and Black Sea Shores arew covered by dense and humid forests. 42,1 % of Kocaeli land is forestry area where 93,3 % of them are natural forests. 36% is agricultural land, 3,4% is grassland and hayfield. In parallel to its wide natural and forestry lands, Kocaeli, with its more than 1,5 million human population, is the second largest GNP producer of the country by its huge industry, banking and research and development bases. Kocaeli is one of the very rare examples where high level of industrialisation meets with a high level of natural lands. Kocaeli currently owns six Natural Parks and new seven parks will be coming.

Darıca : We invite you to take a deep breath

Darica town is on the border of Istanbul and Kocaeli cites ,waiting for you with 16 kms long seashore, green parks, beaches, clean sky and a variety of facilities of accomodation, sports and culture.

Just located 40 kms from Istanbul city center, reached by two motor-highways, by railway and by sea.

Darıca : We invite you to take a deep breath

You can spend a nice spare time with your family in Darica. Sancaktepe Park received two awards for landscape design.

Dudayev Park offers 20 hectars green area near the seashore with recreational and amusement facilities next to the green.

Sea Love Park, located at a hill, is famous for its sun-set with a nice sea view

Darıca : We invite you to take a deep breath

Bayramoglu Marina is under construction for domestic and foreign yatching where new tourism-accommodation investments are being made. Bayramoglu is also famous with over 5.000 large plane trees.