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With the advent of spring, Prague Zoo’s large African enclosure has welcomed its usual seasonal inhabitants. Sable antelopes, blesboks, beisa oryx and nearly two dozen lechwe – as of Thursday they have all been roaming the grassy meadow near the African House. On Friday morning, they were joined by one of Africa’s most...

The mountain pygmy possum is one of Australia's most endangered marsupials. Its situation was exacerbated by extensive bushfires at the turn of 2019 and 2020. To help the animals affected by these bushfires, the Czech public gradually sent more than 23 million Czech crowns to the Prague Zoo donation account – and using these...

The wait is over! Two Chinese pangolins – a male, Guo Bao, and a female, Run Hou Tang – have been at Prague Zoo since Thursday. These are truly exceptional animals. They are the only mammals to be covered in scales, so, at first glance, they look like reptiles, and they have many other remarkable features associated with...

The herd at Dívčí Hrady will increase by another Przewalski’s horse and a foal. Prague Zoo has now released a gelding, Nepomuk, and a mare, Vereda. To counter this, the existing residents, Khamiina and Lana, have moved to the breeding station in Dolní Dobřejov to mate with a stallion. Nevertheless, both mares will...

On Friday, the contractor handed over the new Gorilla House to Prague Zoo and on the 5th of April the building was given its final inspection which is the basis for issuing the occupancy permit. Now the finishing touches are being done and gradually the inhabitants will start moving into the house. It will open to visitors on September 28th.

Elephant Valley’s two youngest inhabitants, two-year-old Lakuna and Amalee, who is six weeks her junior, are already undergoing regular veterinary training in what is known as protected contact. The baby elephants have also increased their birth weight several times over, their tusks are slowly coming through, and their milk...

The arrival of the pangolins and the opening of the new Gorilla House - visitors can look forward to these and other new attractions in Prague Zoo’s 91st season, which was launched on March 26th. The event’s pivotal theme was also a fundraiser to help zoos in Ukraine and special programmes for refugee Ukrainian families.

Last Saturday morning, the director of Mykolaiv Zoo, Vladimir Topchij, published a photo with the caption “a night-time gift for our zoo”. It depicted a cluster bomb embedded in the ground. At more or less the same time, he also sent back the signed contract that was necessary for us to be able to pay him ten thousand euros...

Since 28 February we have been running a collection to help Ukrainian zoos. It has also received support from other UCSZOO (Union of the Czech and Slovak Zoological Gardens) members and foreign organizations.