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Today the director of Prague Zoo, Miroslav Bobek, and the Mongolian State Secretary, Tsengel Tsegmid, signed a Memorandum on the Protection of Endangered Animal Species in Mongolia. Prague Zoo’s activities in Mongolia, which have so far concentrated on the return and protection of the Przewalski’s Horse, will now also be...

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On Friday 23/2, I got the impression that a number of Czech media outlets, in anticipation of our ice hockey team’s important victory over the Russians at the Winter Olympics, had once again prepared headlines beginning with the words “Rewriting History ...” – so, when the game ended in our defeat, they used it for...

A new study by Gaunitz et al. is extremely interesting, although not too surprising from our point of view.

When Slovak rapper Rytmus recently added a picture to his Instagram account showing him with a slow loris while on an exotic holiday, he soon reaped a whirlwind of criticism. He inadvertently became the face of a Facebook campaign calling for a boycott of selfies with “cute animals”.

Gustavo's small office in Guama was packed full of things. He was just packing for a multi-day trip to the central part of the Zapata peninsula, to the flooded forests which provide the habitat for Cuban crocodiles. Our plan for the next days on Cuba was much more modest, and maybe I should have envied Gustav - but there was no reason to.

Two cubs of the critically endangered Malayan tiger, which were born six weeks ago at Prague Zoo, were presented to the media for the first time on October 14 and are now on view for visitors.

Prague Zoo has received a huge acknowledgement. It has been commissioned to keep the European Stud Book (ESB) for the Indian gharial, a critically endangered and evolutionary unique crocodile. The last gharials surviving in the wild are decreasing at an alarming rate and Prague Zoo has long advocated their conservation.

On Thursday, October 19, at 16:00, a ceremonial opening of the Land of the Wild Horses exhibition will take place at the Czech Photo Centre in Nové Butovice. Pictures from world-class travelogue photographers and Prague Zoo staff, who accompanied the transport of Przewalski’s horses to western Mongolia, capture the beauty of...