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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,...

For many years I had a wish, which I rather did not want to tell anybody about. It seemed so immodest and unrealistic to me.

Thirteen films, which found their way to us from the Austrian Film Museum, provided us with a great deal of information about the look and functioning of Prague Zoo in the 1930s. Even more exciting is the discovery that there probably were – or still are – many more of these films. Perhaps up to twenty-one! We know that...

The first female common wombat is heading to the Czech Republic. Prague Zoo’s team is bringing her from Copenhagen Zoo today. Four-year-old Winkleigh will form a breeding pair with two-year-old Cooper. It will be possible to see her in the Darwin Crater exhibit from roughly mid-May, following the mandatory post-import quarantine period.

It was a bit of a provocation from me. I let people vote on Twitter on whether to release nephilas in the jungle in our new gorilla house – The Dja Reserve. What an idea! Although the voting ended in a tie, otherwise reasonable people were writing angry posts in the discussion about toxicity of these spiders or neurotoxicity...