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TripAdvisor.com, the largest travel website, published a ranking of the world’s most popular zoological gardens based on assessments by millions of its users. Prague Zoo placed as forth zoo in the world!

One week ago, when after a rather difficult transport from Dolní Dobřejov, we released four mares of Przewalski´s Horse to the acclimatization enclosure in Gobi, we felt we could finally take a rest. Finished, done. But for Querida, Rabea, Kíra and Paradise this moment is only the beginning of their new life in the habitat,...

Done for the fifth time, it should have been routine - but transporting wild horses across a quarter of the globe is never a routine. Again we had to face expected and unexpected problems.

After 36 hours of a difficult journey, on Sunday night, the mares Querida, Rabea, Kirá and Paradise run out of their crates into the acclimatization enclosure in the Gobi B Strictly Protected Area. So Prague Zoo in cooperation with the Czech Army has transported so far 19 Przewalski´s Horses in five turns to Mongolia. This...

On the before last Sunday, June 14, at 10:30 am I noticed this title in the internet news of Czech Radio: "Flood hit Tbilisi and Zoo, animals running on the streets of the town". The second half of it was later changed to the even more dramatic headline "Carnivores, hippos and crocodiles run wild on the streets". But even the...

On the before last Sunday, June 14, at 10:30 am I noticed this title in the internet news of Czech Radio: "Flood hit Tbilisi and Zoo, animals running on the streets of the town". The second half of it was later changed to the even more dramatic headline "Carnivores, hippos and crocodiles run wild on the streets". But even the...

Written report and phone call with Petr Velenský. The picture of the disaster gradually gets clearer (see previous messages), and it is also increasingly clear how to proceed. On Saturday night after a five-hour-long downpour the Vera River rose by more than 10 metres in its narrowest places. The water rose so quickly that the...

People feel sympathy to the zoo and target the negative emotion towards the army, as it was killing the animals in the zoo for no purpose - for instance the tamed white lion or lion cubs. Also the uncertainty about the numbers of dead animals is partly a result of the conflict with the army, which took the zoo after the floods...

First news from Tbilisi by team leader Petr Velenský: There was a wave of eight, nine meter size full of mud and debris, which went through Tbilisi Zoo. The zoo lies just near the river Vera.