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Who's looking forward to try out the new Giraffe and Rhino lodges when it opens ?

In the AZA, there's a wide array of zoo programs and opportunities for teens interested in wildlife and conservation. It's a very common trend in the AZA and even non-accredited zoos in America. These teen programs can involve educating guests, helping zookeepers, or college/career preparatory...

Very impressed with this series. Four episodes, the first focusing on the Iberian Peninsula and reintroduction of Iberian Lynx and selective breeding to reintroduce 'Aurochs' by tracing the genes through domestic cattle. The second program focuses on the Carpathians and reintroduction of...

Anyone here (in particular from the Netherlands) has any information about any new zoo projects planned to open in the country? The country is full of great facilities and awesome zoos. Do you think there is still "business space" in the country for more big zoos to come up in the future?

Wicksteed Park now has a new Meerkat Manor exhibit. Last year it went to administration but the brilliant news is Wicksteed Park has now been saved and it's reopened

While looking through the gallery I noticed that many European zoos allow visitors to get right up to the mesh without a secondary barrier. Is this common in Europe and why do you think this isn’t repeated across the pond? Thanks in advance for replies.

Yesterday on This Week on the Farm Sewerby Hall and Gardens has took on a delivery of a new Llama called Lisa Marie who arrived from Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley

From the other day I just spoken to a colleague who works at Woburn and it's regarding the Chapman Zebra and unfortunately the Chapman's were put to sleep a few years ago due to old age. That is why it's just Grevy's Zebras now

Hello all, As I was compiling my life lists in the past few days, I came across many lesser-known rarities that are not mentioned on here very often. And so having finished, I thought that perhaps a comprehensive overview of the rarities of each zoo in Europe might be of use to both European...

I know that the Elephant Loges are being completed and opening this year,but has any progress been made on the new African Elephant enclosure and when will the new Elephants join Five and Latebe?

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According to Facebook Chessington has now got 2 new Six-banded armadillos and they are called Amos and Digger

{Note from mods - this thread continues from here: Twycross Zoo News 2020 [Twycross Zoo]} I knew they were cousins, but not about Jahly's inbreeding. Is that why she is cross eyed?

Longleat has donated £50,000 to help support conservation programmes for koalas in the wake of the devastating Australian bushfires earlier this year. A staggering three billion animals, including a third of the entire koala population of New South Wales, were affected by the fires, which swept...

A while ago i made the thread 'South American Fur Seals in Europe'. After that i wanted to make a list of all the pinniped species currently in Europe, but i soon found out that that would be a lot of work. Maybe one day... So for now i started making a list of all the fur seal species...

I was curious about the population of giant otters in European zoos. I saw that there was no thread for this yet so I did some research myself. I like to have this thread to list the current population of giant otters in European zoos, discuss about them and get news of them. There are...

The zoo's developments consist of building 3 mixed species exhibits of around 16,000 m2 in size each holding its African ungulate collection.

They keep South American fur seals in my homezoo. I really like these animals and I even adopted one in my homezoo. Because there are not so many South American fur seals in Europe, I wanted to find out how many and which ones currently live and have lived in Europe. I sent an email to...

The first news to start this thread: New species for the zoo in July include Little Egret and African Spurred Tortoise. Also, as mentioned in Plzen Zoo News thread, they have received a female Chapman's zebra named Zaira. They intend to breed her with their current male. Security Check Required

Essentially, I have wondered for a while why Europe is so poorly represented in Fantasy zoos. There might be a small side alley with a European brown bear, or a chamois or something, but almost never a fully-fledged exhibit, and certainly no entirely European zoos. So I'm going to make one! I...