Zoo of Prague

The zoo of Prague is a Zoological garden located beside the Château of Troja in the suburbs of Prague. It is founded in 1931 with the goal “to advance the study of the zoology, to protect the wildlife and to educate the public. ” It occupies 45 hectares of ground and shelters approximately 4.600 animals which account for six hundreds - thirty species various arrivals of the whole world. The zoo of Prague played a key function in the safeguard of the Cheval of Przewalski and for a long time was the principal stockbreeder of this race in the world.

History

Beginnings

In 1881, the idea is born, at the time of the marriage of the archduke Rodolphe of Austria with the princess Stéphanie of Belgium, of a call diffused in the press by the count Sweerts-Spork to establish a zoological garden in Prague.

It is with the independence of Czechoslovakia that the things advance: in 1919, an advisory committee for mathematics and the natural science meet then within the minister of education public to establish preliminary work with the opening of a zoological garden in Prague.

September 28th, 1931, the zoo is inaugurated by one afternoon of sunny autumn.

Notorious projections

In 1938, the first vulture of the Andes hatches and is high in captivity.

In full Second world war, in 1942, the polar first bear cub, a fore-mentioned female Ilun, is born in captivity.

In 1959, Dr. Zdeněk Veselovský becomes director of the zoo. Under its direction, the zoo of Prague reaches an international level in term of breeding and scientific studies.

The first artificial insemination of a horse of Przewalski is crowned success in 2001.

The floods which, in 2002 devastate Tchéquie and is of Germany affect hard the zoo which is flooded and which loses many animals then, dead drowned. A gift campaign makes it possible the zoo quickly to be rebuilt.

External bonds

Official site

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