They are arriving at La Maleja Wildlife Park in the Turolense town of Tramacastilla, where more than 40 animals of the Sierra de Albarracín’s native species live in semi-freedom. new residents, They are domestic and wild animals, some obtained by herding and others rescued from their environment, whose owners’ financial crisis has changed their lives, Being forced to get rid of them. They are sheep, donkeys, horses, ibex, deer, wild boar and even fox, almost all With a sad story behind.
Manager of La Maleza, Ricardo Almazanqualifies the situation “worrying”, He points out that since it opened its doors nearly three years ago, the center receives calls from persons from all over spain who ask for help to be able to afford a new home for themselves unusual petsbut insists that in the last six months, “This type of notice has become static.”
Almazan credits rebound to economic turnaround, moving many to cut costsand warned that the park “You Can’t Say Yes To Everyone”, The person in charge of La Maleja explains that they have chosen to accept only the most extreme cases, while in other less pressing situations they cooperate to get these animals out. The center bears the cost of the new ones, although former owners often They cooperated in the sustenance of those who were their companion animals.
in two years, About twenty animals have ended up in La Maleza lost in their environment, To become a new attraction of this zoological park promoted by the Albarracin community as an economic stimulus for the towns of the Sierra. center is manned 23 hectares of pine forest and rocks of Rodeno And it was launched with an investment of 1.5 million euros by Albarracín from the Teruel Investment Fund, FITE, and the community.
‘Trompy’, the orphaned goat
Among the new residents of La Maleza is ‘Trompy’, an ibex that was orphaned in the forests of Castellón and found by a young man who fed him and sheltered him in the chicken coop, After seven months in Tramacastilla Park, her rescuer visited her and, she came running calling from afar As if he is a dog.
have another tenant A 40 kg sheep that lived in an apartment in Albacete, Her owner bought her on holiday in the countryside when he saw her newborn baby on the shepherd’s shoulders and pity him for the future that awaited himWell, like the rest of the herd, it will be killed when it grows up. there also four african pygmy goats Bought to eat weed of a bungalow in Zaragoza. “They realized they were also eating the flowers and left them in the street”Let’s remember Almazan.
it has also arrived a pack of foxes with which he experimented in Granada To domesticate the species. “They were prisoners, it was hell for them; They wanted to sell them because of the cost, but when they couldn’t find them, they hated them,” explains La Maleza’s manager.
‘Rufino’, a wild boar found on a road in Jain by a driver; ‘arlo’Found by a neighbor in Bronkles who was about to die of starvation It Took Eight Months of Hot Milk Bottles, Or an abandoned donkey in Vinrose (Castellón) for which a neighbor felt sorry and for this reason called La Maleza, this curious creature that interacts with visitors to the park. Two eagle owls and three buzzards — among other raptors — arrived from a state recovery center that couldn’t release them back into nature because they weren’t in good condition for it.
All of them Share space with the native fauna of the Sierra de Albarracin These have filled the park since its inception, as have wolves, mouflons, genets, ferrets, fallow deer and the taurus, a later descendant of the prehistoric cow.
