Vuk Bojovic dies

BELGRADE - Head of the Belgrade Zoo Vuk Bojovic died on Wednesday, zoo officials have told Tanjug.

Bojovic ran the zoo for 28 years.

During his management, the zoo took care of more than 2,500 animals.

He was born in Pljevlja, Montenegro, in 1940 and majored in sculpting at the Belgrade Faculty of Fine Arts. He worked as a freelance artist for a time and sculpted around 30 busts.

Bojovic also worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools and at the junior college of trade in Belgrade, where he became the principal after a while.

He wrote a monograph of the Belgrade Zoo, which was published in 2010, and he received an ISO 9001 certificate in 2011 for the zoo's quality, which is something few zoos in the world have.

The Belgrade Zoo has been trading animals with the London, Vienna, Munich, Antwerp and Moscow zoos for years, but it has also helped create new zoos, like the one in Jagofina, which got all its animals from the Belgrade Zoo.

Photo Tanjug, N. Jovanovic (archive)