Last Saturday morning, the director of Mykolaiv Zoo, Vladimir Topchij, published a photo with the caption “a night-time gift for our zoo”. It depicted a cluster bomb embedded in the ground. At more or less the same time, he also sent back the signed contract that was necessary for us to be able to pay him ten thousand euros...

Since 28 February we have been running a collection to help Ukrainian zoos. It has also received support from other UCSZOO (Union of the Czech and Slovak Zoological Gardens) members and foreign organizations.

The driver had stashed his machine gun between the front seats of the Landcruiser, but the other Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers held theirs in their hands, even as we turned off the main road and took the muddy, deeply rutted road to the top of the hill. The car skidded and slid until we finally came to a halt at a wooden...

Prague Zoo has launched the sale of a “Charity Ticket” bearing the motto “The Czech Lion helps Ukrainian lions”. By buying a symbolic entrance fee, those interested will support Ukraine’s war-threatened breeding facilities.

There are heart-breaking reports from Ukrainian zoos.

The first ever hardback book in the Badwe’e dialect of the Koonzime language, spoken around the Dja Biosphere Reserve in Cameroon, has been published. It is Gorilla Fairy Tales and was published thanks to Prague Zoo. It was distributed to school children in Somalomo on International Mother Language Day, which was...

On Thursday, 24 February, Prague Zoo drew a line with regards to Russian aggression by suspending its membership in the Euro-Asian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EARAZA), which has its headquarters in Moscow and mainly brings together establishments from the former Eastern Bloc. Ukrainian zoos have already left this association.

World Pangolin Day is always commemorated on the third Saturday in February. Recently, it has finally entered the consciousness, if not of the public, then at least of those interested in nature and its conservation. Its aim is to draw attention to these mammals’ uniqueness and the threat they face from illegal hunting and trade.

The most easterly provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo are still dealing with the consequences of the influx of refugees from neighbouring Rwanda, during the 1994 genocide there, and the tragedies of the two subsequent Congolese wars. These have yet to die down fully and have led to the so-called ‘Kivu conflict’,...