Przewalski’s horses transported from Prague Zoo have safely arrived in Kazakhstan after a 15-hour flight. A subsequent 11-hour overland journey on the beds of lorries carried them from Kostanay to the Altyn Dala State Nature Reserve (the Golden Steppe). There, shortly before 8 pm, they were released into an...

Thanks to Prague Zoo and the Czech Air Force, four Przewalski’s horses departed for Kazakhstan today, all of them stallions—a first in the history of these transports. The world’s last remaining species of wild horse will land in Kostanay aboard a CASA aircraft, from where a ground convoy will continue to the Golden...

The Return of the Wild Horses project continues this year. The transport of Przewalski’s horses to Kazakhstan, organised by Prague Zoo and its partners, will begin as early as this week. This will take place almost exactly fifteen years after Prague’s first transport of the horses to Mongolia. Eight Przewalski’s...

Prague Zoo has rejoined the Union of Czech and Slovak Zoological Gardens (UCSZOO). The organisation’s General Assembly approved the zoo’s readmission on Thursday, 21 May. After just under four years, Prague Zoo has once again become a full member of this national association.

Vietnam pheasants, last seen in the wild in 2000, are returning to their homeland. Berlin Zoo transported ten pairs to Vietnam this month, with three of the twenty individuals coming from Prague Zoo. The transport, under the slogan Bring Back Blue, is the result of decades of international effort. Prague Zoo plays a key role: it...

Prague Zoo welcomes new additions both within its Troja grounds and beyond. Following the birth of two Przewalski’s horse foals in the Gobi exhibit, a colt was born at Dívčí hrady. What’s more, the herd of European bison in Prague’s Dolní Počernice district has grown. Europe’s largest land mammals, which once came...

Fancy a curlew, a coua or a kiskadee? Prague Zoo has welcomed four new bird species. The Eurasian curlew catches the eye with its long bill; the endemic blue coua with its metallic sheen; the agile great kiskadee with its remarkable boldness; and the (until know unmentioned) rufous-vented laughingthrush can be seen nowhere else...

At first it seemed there were six young, but the keepers were soon surprised by a “magical” seventh. Prague Zoo has welcomed the birth of capybaras, with the world’s largest rodents producing the largest litter in the zoo’s history. All seven pups can now be seen in the enclosure in the lower part of the zoo, which they...

A quartet of critically endangered eastern bongo antelopes, including a male from Prague Zoo, has arrived in Kenya. Nicol Adamcová, the Czech Ambassador to Kenya, symbolically handed the animals over to the Kenyan government at Nairobi airport. This took place 52 years after Josef Vágner brought the ancestors of these...