Director´s view

Even a single electricity generator can increase the chances of a critically endangered species’ survival. This is not some theoretical example, but a cold, hard fact. Last year, we financed just such a generator at Brazil’s Itatiba Zoo.

When I arrived at the visitor area of the gorilla pavilion last Sunday, Kamba had just gotten to her feet, she took a few steps forward, picked up a fresh twig, and started nibbling on it. A weight fell from my shoulders. It meant that she was much better than she had been in the previous days.

The Silifke castle, no matter how ancient, did not particularly attract me; I had seen several similar castles on the southern coast of Turkey in the previous days. So, while my fellow travellers started to climb the hill toward the ruins, I drank a can of lemonade at a kiosk, then walked to the road and started...

The former mill race at Prague Zoo has been emptied for some time and it is now being limed. The aim is to get it ready to be stocked with some native fish, primarily crucian carp. Nowadays, this seemingly ordinary, but in many respects extraordinary fish, is one of the critically endangered species in our country. The project,...

It looks as if it were wrapped in a black cloak lined with red silk. Added to which it has sharply cut features and a bald head. A real avian Dracula.

We received more than four thousand proposals through an online form, hundreds more in discussions on social networks and emails. And one name really caught our attention – Terry, in honour of the writer Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), the author of Discworld.

From one small video shot at the start of the spring closing, the Zoo Shorts project has rapidly developed into something that keeps the zoo open for its visitors, well at least virtually. Keepers took short videos on their phones capturing their wards and giving a behind the...

During 2020, I was taking photos of burned koalas in Victoria, Australia; our freshly born elephant baby; the orangutan baby; and photos of our zoo, closed due to COVID, from the ground as well as from the air, but for me this is the Photo of the Year. I know, it is not perfect. I took it by hand with a shutter speed of 1/40...

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