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During my brief visit to Indonesian Jakarta I held several meetings, experienced a 5.6 magnitude earthquake and also quickly walked through two animal markets: the smaller street market Jatinegara and the larger Pramuka with a “department store” with four floors full of shops with thousands of bird cages.

Prague Zoo awarded the Little, Big and Wild Richard Awards to its most important supporters - this year the awards all went to representatives of the public whose support for the Zoo was and is extraordinary. During the meeting of the zoo’s sponsors and friends, the baby aardvark was christened. Actor Miroslav Táborský, the...

As we do every year before Christmas, we are looking for adoptive parents for our animal “orphans”. And this time, among the “orphans” there are also large freshwater fish, darting around one of the water tanks in the Indonesian Jungle, in the moat next to the exhibit of southern pig-tailed macaques.

On Monday in the early evening, I popped in to the Dja Reserve again. Three gorillas were sitting side by side under the window to the enclosure: Kisumu, the male that we had brought from Austria two months ago, Moja’s daughter Duni, who had arrived from Spain a week after Kisumu, and Shinda, one of the three females from our...

Yesterday a big gorilla meeting took place at Prague Zoo without too much fuss. Newcomers Kisumu and Duni met the rest of the group - females Kijivu, Shinda, Kamba and Ajabu, a small male. After Monday’s minor quarrels, the situation is much calmer now. Visitors can observe the six freshly integrated gorillas in the Dja Reserve pavilion.

As of today, approximately one hundred small crucian carp bred at Prague Zoo have been inhabiting the U Kamenného stolu pond in Prague’s Vinoř district. They were released by the staff of Prague Zoo, thus starting the long-planned reintroduction of this almost extinct species into the Czech countryside.

Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh awarded Miroslav Bobek, Prague Zoo’s director, the “Order of the Polar Star” – the highest state decoration a foreign national can receive. The president’s advisor, Erdenetsogt Odbayar, presented the Order on the president’s behalf, and thanked Mr Bobek for...
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