Visitors to the Sofia Zolo can see gigantic 260x360 m. graffiti on the walls of the bear enclosure where two Eurasian brown bears live – Mariana and Tony. The graffiti depict two species of birds of prey, both of them protected under Natura 2000 – the Eurasian griffon vulture and the bearded vulture, both rarely seen on the territory of Bulgaria.
It took about a week for Ukrainian street artist Andrey Palval to make the big graffiti in Sofia’s zoo, and in that time the bears were in their cages. Besides the two species of vultures, the artist has also added a brown bear. Palval is himself a biologist and ornithologist. He moved to Bulgaria at the beginning of the war with his wife and three children. Since then he has created graffiti of an Eastern imperial eagle and a saker falcon in Stara Zagora, and of a red-breasted goose in Bulgarevo village, Kavarna municipality, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports.
Compiled by Gergana Mancheva
Translated and posted by Milena Daynova
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