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Nobody Knows How to Measure a Fish’s Welfare

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A broad stone staircase of several flights rises between stone balustrades at Pairi Daiza, its steps planted with beds of red and purple foliage, framed by mature green trees with the tower of Cambron Abbey visible at the upper right.

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Pairi Daiza Restores Cambron Abbey’s 1776 Staircase

September 30, 2026

A squirrel monkey with a golden-yellow back, pale face and dark cap grips a thin branch with one hand, surrounded by broad green leaves inside a planted indoor enclosure.

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Nine Squirrel Monkeys Move Into Hagenbeck’s Jungle

A small restored steam locomotive with an orange buffer beam stands under steam in the open doorway of a timber engine shed at Pairi Daiza, a Belgian flag mounted beside its headlamp, with a member of staff in a blue railway uniform and cap standing on either side of it.

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A 126-Year-Old Steam Engine Runs Again at Pairi Daiza

A flock of pink flamingos stands on a sand bank at the edge of a green pond at Tierpark Hagenbeck, with a low planted island in the water in front of them, artificial rock outcrops and clipped hedges behind, and zebras visible in the distance.

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Hagenbeck Rebuilds Its Flamingo Pond Around a Filter

Hamburg’s Tierpark Hagenbeck reopened its flamingo pond at the Africa panorama on July ...

Promotional key art for Halloween at Kolmarden: a performer in a red and black harlequin costume hangs upside down from an aerial rig against a dark purple night sky lit with orange sparks, with the words Halloween pa Kolmarden set across the center in orange and white lettering.

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Kolmarden Adds a New Halloween Season, and Then HalloXmas

Kolmården opens its Halloween season on October 3, 2026, and runs it on ...

A young white-tailed sea eagle perches on a weathered log against blurred green foliage, its plumage dark brown mottled with tan, its heavy hooked bill pale at the base, looking to the right of frame.

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Fota’s First Sea Eagle Chick in a Decade Has Fledged

A white-tailed sea eagle chick hatched at Fota Wildlife Park in County Cork ...

A young child in a green knitted hat shaped like a fish holds a cluster of twigs up to her face, smiling, with an adult and another child blurred behind her in autumn woodland.

Europe

WWT Brings Back SUPER Natural for Half Term

WWT is running SUPER Natural across its wetland centers again this autumn, for ...

A giant anteater with a long tapering snout and a bold white stripe along its dark flank stands beside a fallen log in dappled light, its thin tongue extended toward the bark.

Europe

Two Species New to Dublin Zoo Go on Show

Two species that had never been on show at Dublin Zoo went on ...

Two giraffes stand outside a long grey and timber building with tall glazed bays, one walking past the open doorways and the other reaching toward a dark feeder bag hung from a post.

Europe

Cologne Zoo Adds a Virtual Savanna Next Door

Cologne Zoo has put a virtual savanna directly across the path from a ...

An adult gorilla sits on a rock in long dry grass, cradling a newborn infant against her chest with one arm, the infant's small dark hand and face just visible against her fur.

Conservation Projects

A Gorilla Is Born at Denmark’s Only Gorilla Zoo

On July 29, 2026, a western lowland gorilla was born at Givskud Zoo ...

A downy black-tailed godwit chick, mottled brown and cream and standing on long grey legs, beside a shallow round dish of food on a blue cloth surface scattered with crumbs.

Conservation Projects

A Rescued Clutch of Godwits Has Bred at Slimbridge

In 2024, conservationists pulled a clutch of black-tailed godwit eggs out of flooded ...

An African elephant walks across the sandy floor of its enclosure at Zoo Duisburg, trunk lowered and tusks visible, with a second elephant standing on rockwork behind it and green trees beyond the fence.

Europe

Duisburg’s Elephants Move On, and a Savanna Moves In

Zoo Duisburg’s three female African elephants left Germany on Tuesday, September 8, and ...

Europe

A Marine Film Festival Comes to BIOPARC Valencia

BIOPARC Valencia has a cinema, and this autumn it is running four marine ...

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Europe

Nobody Knows How to Measure a Fish’s Welfare

Pairi Daiza Restores Cambron Abbey’s 1776 Staircase

Nine Squirrel Monkeys Move Into Hagenbeck’s Jungle

A 126-Year-Old Steam Engine Runs Again at Pairi Daiza

Hagenbeck Rebuilds Its Flamingo Pond Around a Filter

Kolmarden Adds a New Halloween Season, and Then HalloXmas

Fota’s First Sea Eagle Chick in a Decade Has Fledged

WWT Brings Back SUPER Natural for Half Term

Two Species New to Dublin Zoo Go on Show

Cologne Zoo Adds a Virtual Savanna Next Door

A Gorilla Is Born at Denmark’s Only Gorilla Zoo

A Rescued Clutch of Godwits Has Bred at Slimbridge

Duisburg’s Elephants Move On, and a Savanna Moves In

A Marine Film Festival Comes to BIOPARC Valencia

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Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens: A Wild Addition to the WAZA Family

Lions Are Back at the Saint Louis Zoo

Ten Alpine Ibex Released in Austria

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The Bronx Zoo Has Taken In 800 Trafficked Turtles

What California Does With the Ivory People Hand Over

Elephants Hear to the Beat: UC Researchers Determine African Elephant Hearing with Help from Zoos

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