About zoo

About zoo
Przewalski’s horses run through the landscape of their ancestors in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area in Mongolia. Such a sight will soon be a reality on the Altyn Dala steppe in central Kazakhstan. Photo Miroslav Bobek, Prague Zoo

The first transports of Przewalski’s horses from Europe to Kazakhstan will take place this June in the framework of the project entitled Return of the Wild Horses 2024. 

History

The history of Prague Zoo goes all the way back to the year 1881, when, on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Count Sweerts-Sporck published an open letter in the newspapers calling for the establishment of a zoological garden in Prague.


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