Mats Berg

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Mats Berg
Profession	zoo director
Personal details
Born
Country	Sweden

Locations
Title	elephant keeper -1981
Location	at Stockholm Zoo (Skansen) in Sweden

Biography details

Mats Berg , zoo director in Sweden

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Being a second generation zookeeper, Mats Berg grew up in the Zoo in Stockholm, starting to lead horses, later assisting the elephant keepers and was before he left the zoo, head keeper and resonsible of the carnivore section. Later he was owner of Järvzoo in northern Sweden.

Noi, in the middle, during her first week at Skansen in 1967, to the left Fatima, right, Nika (Gobi). Elephant keepers, from left; Ingvar Nylund and Mats Berg.

Nika and elephant keeper Mats Berg after morning walk in the Stockholm Zoo Skansen, 1971. Photo: Erland Axel Wadsten.

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References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director Mats Berg in Sweden. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=815. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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