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Elephant Valley’s two youngest inhabitants, two-year-old Lakuna and Amalee, who is six weeks her junior, are already undergoing regular veterinary training in what is known as protected contact. The baby elephants have also increased their birth weight several times over, their tusks are slowly coming through, and their milk...

The arrival of the pangolins and the opening of the new Gorilla House - visitors can look forward to these and other new attractions in Prague Zoo’s 91st season, which was launched on March 26th. The event’s pivotal theme was also a fundraiser to help zoos in Ukraine and special programmes for refugee Ukrainian families.

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...

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...

The first ever hardback book in the Bajwe’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.
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