Zoo
Midbarium
🇮🇱 Israel
IZA
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Israel 10 spp. present
The Midbarium or "Desertarium" (Hebrew: מדבריום; "midbar" means "desert" is Hebrew), also the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Animal Park is a desert zoo and amusement park at the edge of the desert by the northwest outskirts of Beersheba, Israel. It covers 140 dunams (37 acres) and has over 100 species of animals, including leopards, zebras, giraffes, turtles, wild dogs, hippopotami, meerkats, lions, and eagles. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
31.260° N 34.745° E
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
Medium
Species present
10
speciesOpened
2023
Size
Medium
Accreditations
- Israel Zoo AssociationAssociation of zoos in Israel
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Before you go
Where is Midbarium?
Israel
Midbarium is a zoo or wildlife park in Israel. Its coordinates are 31.260° N, 34.745° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Hortobágy National Park, about 2,158 km away.
What animals can you see at Midbarium?
10 species
Citizen-science photos record 10 species at Midbarium, including Short-toed Eagle, Little Owl, Palestine Viper, Greater Flamingo and Dromedary Camel. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Midbarium in the wild?
Short-toed Eagle: Cévennes National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Midbarium also live in the parks and cities we cover: Short-toed Eagle (about 30% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Cévennes National Park), Little Owl (about 30% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Hortobágy National Park) and Palestine Viper (about 20% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Jerusalem).
Is Midbarium accredited?
IZA
Open registers list Midbarium with IZA. These marks come from Wikidata, and they are shown here as a fact, not as an endorsement.
When did Midbarium open and how big is it?
Opened 2023, 11 ha
Midbarium, a zoo or wildlife park in Israel, opened in 2023 and covers about 11 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 10 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)