The Zoo Project

Red River Zoo - Takin Ridge
Takin Ridge is home to three Sichuan Takin and four East Caucasian Tur, giving zoo visitors a unique opportunity to see them together and the only place East Caucasian Tur are exhibited to the general public. Currently, there are 38 Takin in ten zoos and only twenty Tur in two zoos. Both species are endangered in their natural ranges of the Tibetan Plateau and Chechnya. Estimates show that only about 5,000 Tur remain in the wild.

