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Zoo news and information from Europe.

A small dark turtle with a neck as long as its shell walks across a sandy underwater surface beside a rock and green leaves.

Conservation Projects

Eleven Turtles Hatched From an Almost Emptied Island

Mr Zoo News

A bonobo resting against a log

Europe

The Bonobos Noticed They Were Being Shortchanged

September 14, 2026

A small brown newt speckled with gold stands in shallow water facing the camera, its large dark eyes reflected on the surface below.

Conservation Projects

Chester Sent 32 Newts to a Stream It Will Not Name

An architect's render of a long, low, sand-colored building with a wide open passage cut through its center, the word CETASEA in freestanding letters on the landscaping in front of it, palms and pine trees around it and a few small figures walking toward the entrance.

Conservation Projects

The Marine Mammal Center Europe Does Not Have Yet

Two downy ducklings with dark backs and yellow faces sit side by side on an orange textured mat beside shallow water.

Conservation Projects

Fifteen Eggs Walked 44 Kilometers. Six Ducks Survived.

Conservationists working for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust collected 15 fertile eggs from ...

A bearded man in a green jacket and round glasses stands against a white wall beside two large circular artworks in yellow and orange.

Europe

A Deep Sea Installation Opens Inside the ARTIS Aquarium

ARTIS Amsterdam Royal Zoo has commissioned the artist Olafur Eliasson to build a ...

A young little owl perched on a wooden beam, looking toward the camera

Conservation Projects

From Zero Pairs to Sixteen, and Four More Owls

In 2000, the northern Harz foreland had zero breeding pairs of little owls. ...

Stone steps lead up to a low modernist zoo building with a dark sign reading SZYMPANSY above its glass entrance, framed by trees.

Europe

Wroclaw Zoo Rebuilds Its Ape House Around the Chimps

ZOO Wroclaw began modernizing its Great Ape Pavilion on August 20, 2026, and ...

An orange and white anemonefish hovers among the long pink tentacles of a sea anemone.

Europe

Aquarium Berlin Reopens After a Three-Year Rebuild

Aquarium Berlin reopened on August 18, 2026 after a modernization that ran three ...

A slender bright green snake rests along a branch behind out-of-focus green leaves, its head turned toward the camera.

Europe

A Czech Park Now Shows Three Mamba Species Together

SAFARI PARK Dvůr Králové in the Czech Republic has added green mambas to ...

An African penguin swims at the surface of a shallow greenish pool, seen from above.

Europe

ARTIS Is Turning Its Sea Lion Pool Into a Penguin Home

ARTIS in Amsterdam is converting its California sea lion enclosure into a new ...

A Przewalski's horse mare and her pale foal standing together in dry steppe grass under a wide blue sky

Conservation Projects

A Wild Horse Was Born Wild Again in Kazakhstan

On August 22, 2026, a Przewalski’s horse foal was born on the steppe ...

A large dark cinereous vulture soars against a clear blue sky with a green wing tag visible.

Conservation Projects

Planckendael Vulture Released Into the Wild in Bulgaria

A cinereous vulture hatched at ZOO Planckendael in Belgium is now flying free ...

A pale, gaunt undertaker character in a long gray coat gestures toward wooden cabins in a misty moonlit forest.

Europe

Norway’s Dyreparken Opens a Halloween Hotel

Kristiansand Dyrepark, the largest zoo in Norway, will turn one of its overnight ...

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