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Statement from Prague Zoo’s director, Miroslav Bobek, on the birth of a baby Sumatran orangutan:

Prague Zoo can take quite a bit of credit for saving the Przewalski’s horse from extinction as well as returning it to its original homeland once its numbers allowed. With this online exhibition we want to share the feeling of gratification we feel when we watch these wild horses in the freedom of the steppes and semi-deserts of Inner Asia.

For many years now millions and millions of pangolins have been trafficked. It took a long time – and who knows if it’s not too late – for work to begin on giving them more effective protection. We are also trying to help with this. We have co-financed the Pangolarium in Laos and we intend to support the creation of a...

Dear visitors, due to a government decision Prague Zoo will be closed to the public from October 9 until further notice. Thank you for your understanding.

Decades of ongoing efforts to save the Przewalski’s horse and return it to the wild, efforts in which Prague Zoo has played a key role, are gradually coming to fruition. This was confirmed by an analysis recently published in the journal Conservation Letters. The authors of the analysis posed the question ‘How many...

One kilometre of pipes, seventy valves, a filtration system that filters 360 cubic metres of water per hour. The reconstructed Hippo House in Prague Zoo hides a small factory. Thanks to the new filtration system we finally managed to have clean water. However, the reopening of the house was not the only celebration at Prague...

The situation with covid-19 not only forced us to reduce Monday’s Prague Zoo Anniversary Celebration, during which we will reopen the Hippo House, but also to completely cancel the showing of the photo exhibition, The Beauty of Wild Horses, which shows the “Przewalski’s” in the wilds of Mongolia and China. Although it is...

Almost nine months have passed since Rachel Hogan and I sat in her office in the Primate Sanctuary in Mefou, Cameroon, planning the building of children’s accommodation. The children are brought to Mefou from the villages surrounding the Dja Biosphere Reserve by our Wandering Bus. Here, they take part in an educational...

On Sunday we named both our baby elephants. The daughters of Tamara and Janita, our Prague elephant princesses. I’d like to remind you that the first was born on March 27th, when the zoo had been closed for a fortnight, and the second on May 9th, when it had been reopened, but many restrictions still applied. Of course, right...