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Five worlds
Visitors walk through replicas of five ecosystems in the Americas
The Biodome is a museum of enclosed ecosystems. The five are the tropical rainforest, the Laurentian maple forest, a Gulf of St. Lawrence estuary, the Labrador Coast and the Sub-Antarctic Islands. Its key mission is conservation.
The velodrome
The building was first an Olympic velodrome for cycling and judo
Roger Taillibert designed it as part of his plan for an Olympic park, and it opened in April 1976. It had 2,600 seats and hosted track cycling and judo events at the 1976 Olympic Games.
The change
Mayor Pierre Bourque turned the velodrome into the Biodome
A feasibility study in 1988 looked at converting the velodrome. Pierre Bourque, then the mayor, had been inspired by the Floralies Internationales de Montréal, held in the same building. The facility opened to the public on 18 June 1992.
Discoveries
Two new species were found living inside the Biodome
An acarian was discovered in the simulated estuary in 1996, and a bacterium in the water reprocessing system in 2003. In 2000 a new type of hybrid bird, a warbler cross, was observed there.
Conservation
Teams work on three vulnerable species from the maple forest
The research and conservation teams focus on the wood turtle, the Western chorus frog and the copper redhorse. The copper redhorse is a fish found only in Quebec. The Biodome also has a successful rockhopper penguin breeding program.
Day 4, midday
It comes after Montreal Botanical Garden. Then Olympic Park.
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