There has been recent news on the fact that the Safari Dubai Park project is around 30% complete when it first began a few years ago. The Dubai Safari, is a long-awaited upcoming zoo fully featured park, is 30 per cent complete and expected to open its doors to the mass public in the third quarter of 2016, an official told news outlets this Saturday just gone.

Hussain Lootah, Dubai Municipality Director-General who heads up the safari park project, mentioned on Saturday that the massive Dh1 billion project will cover 119 hectares of land that will typically accommodate a number of different diverse and range of species.  

Dubai Safari, coming up in Al Warqa’a area, will replace the existing decades-old Dubai Zoo.

The plan to relocate roughly 1,000 animals was developed and revised many times in the past decade, pushing back the opening of Dubai Safari.