Zoo

A check was started in the zoo in Haskovo after the death of two newborn lions. They died hours after their birth due to lack of care on the part of the staff. Against this background, the Ministry of Environment and Waters shows that half of the zoos in the country - 10 out of 20 - are without a valid license.

The Sofia Zoo announced on its Facebook page that it needed volunteers to keep animals from being fed by visitors. Help will be needed during the two days of the weekend, when the zoo is visited by most people.

A rare three-month-old albino penguin made its first public appearance at a zoo in the Polish Baltic port city of Gdansk, where its keepers claim it is the only one of its kind in captivity.

The Gaziantep Zoo, which is one of the largest zoos in Turkey in terms of its field size and variety of animal species, is looking to match up its single elephants Gabi and Pili, jaguar Hasret and male hippopotamus with potential partners.

It was officially announced that all museums in the capital and the country will welcome their visitors free of charge on March 3rd. The zoo in Sofia also joined the initiative.

We remind you that every Sunday at the Zoo there is a demonstration feeding of the animals in the "Big cats, terrarium and aquarium" Hall.

The prices of the adult tickets for Sofia Zoo to be increased with 2 leva. The idea is for a one-time entry into the park for adults to pay 6 leva instead of the current 4 leva. Tickets for children at 3 years will remain at 2 leva. For smaller visitors the entrance is not paid.

This is suggested by the director of the municipal enterprise Dobromir Borislavov.

The Attica Zoological Park at Spata, west of Athens, has accused its critics of "hypocrisy" over the fatal shooting of two rare jaguars that escaped from their enclosure in November.

The incident, which was announced on Saturday, triggered criticism of the zoo by the Panhellenic Animal Welfare and Environmental Federation and Giorgos Amyras, a lawmaker for To Potami.

Aslan Park, the world’s third zoo exclusively consisting of big cats, has opened to visitors in Istanbul. Click through for the story in photos...

A team of Four Paws have forced their way into a private zoo and rescued the final few malnourished and diseased animals from it, the Bulgarian office of the International Animal Protection Organization announced, quoted by bTV. 

Among the rescuers. there were also employees of the Dancing Bears Park near Belitsa.

Due to ice damage, which Ljubljana suffered in 2014, all fences and flying enclosures in the upper part of the ZOO collapsed, including the outer fence, and one third of the trees on the steep slopes was destroyed.