Director

Director
Miroslav Bobek. Photo: Michal Sváček

Miroslav Bobek (* 10/2/1967 in Mladá Boleslav) has been leading Prague Zoo since 2010. He graduated in zoology from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles’ University, then worked in Czech Radio between 1993–2009. During his tenure as Director of Prague Zoo many new exhibits were built – particularly the Elephant...

Red-necked wallabies—though not the continental subspecies, but rather the Tasmanian one—can be seen today in Darwin’s Crater in Prague Zoo. Photo: Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

This year marks 120 years since the football club AFK Vršovice, today’s Bohemians 1905, was founded. That’s why I made a little search into the history of kangaroos, which are inseparably connected with this club.

Altogether 1,043 young of reptiles, birds and mammals have been born or hatched during 2024. It is not so much about their total number, but rather the exceptionality of many of them. Only a few zoological gardens can boast of three ape babies in one...


Photo: Kristýna Čechlovská, Prague Zoo

The area of the Strictly Protected Area Great Gobi A in southwestern Mongolia is comparable with Switzerland. It is a deserted, remote part of the world, but for years we have been participating here in protection of the wild camel. An uninformed...

Connie eats the diluted mixture “flavoured” by the ants. Photo by Miroslav Bobek

Five-month-old pangolin female Connie hasn’t even noticed the special diluted mixture. She even walked through it in the plastic feeding box and smeared it on the bottom. She thus clearly illustrated the big problem that we had been struggling with...