Parc Zoologique de Cleres

The Clères zoological park is a French zoological and botanical park, part of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and run by the Seine-Maritime Département. It is at Clères in Seine-Maritime. It is the creation of the ornithologist Jean Delacour, who bought the Clères estate in 1919 where he developed his passion for botany and ornithology. The gardens were laid out in the English style from the nineteenth century by Henry Avray Tipping. Many tree species are present. They were planted by Édouard Busigny under the direction of the Comte de Béarn. A few remarkable trees are worth noting: giant sequoia, ginkgo biloba, maple…

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