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Prague Zoo is celebrating an extraordinary breeding success. The team of curator Petr Velenský managed to breed extremely sensitive impressed tortoises. The two hatchlings of these fungivore reptiles were the first ever to be hatched in a zoo on the entire continent. Until recently, they were considered unsuitable for breeding....

Following the winter break, the outdoor enclosure for the gorilla group in the Dja Reserve has reopened. The male, Kisumu, and Duni, the daughter of Prague’s famous Moja, entered the exhibit’s outdoor section for the first time. Last week it was confirmed that Duni is pregnant!

This week, visitors to Prague Zoo can see a newly set up pair of smooth-coated otters. This tropical carnivore is rarely bred in captivity and now inhabits an island opposite the southern pig-tailed macaques in the Indonesian Jungle Pavilion.

When I left my office to watch the couple of hamerkops that were tirelessly carrying material to their already gigantic nest in the aviary under the cliff, Helena Růžičková’s replica from the well-known Czech comic film Sun, Hay and Strawberries came to my mind: “If you build an extension, we’ll add a whole floor!”...

One of the key missions of zoos is to protect biodiversity. Prague Zoo mostly finances its in situ projects with funds from each entry. This has now risen from 5 to 8 CZK. Jana Komrsková, Deputy Mayor for the Environment, made the announcement at today’s opening of the Faces of CITES exhibition.

“200 km straight, then a mild curve to the left, again 200 km straight, right turn and after another 50 km we will stop for the night,” I wrote home with only a little exaggeration when we were heading by cars to the “Golden Steppe” Altyn Dala after the afternoon flight to Kostanay in northern Kazakhstan. The following...

Šiška, a female pangolin at Prague Zoo, is a quarter of a year old. Although she is still drinking her mother's milk, she is slowly switching to her parents' diet, thus getting through another critical period for the first pangopup in Europe.

It was an unbelievable paradox. During my journey to Cameroon, I received news about the progress of the pangolin female Šiška and at the same time I was daily seeing pangolins in street stalls and on markets or cooked in local restaurants… Pangolins have been strictly protected in Cameroon for many years, however the trade...

Today, in the presence of the Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and the Republic of Kazakhstan, Petr Fiala and Älihan Smaiylov, the Director of Prague Zoo, Miroslav Bobek, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to Return Przewalski’s Horses to Kazakhstan. There have been long-term negotiations concerning this cooperation,...