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/ October 2, 2026
The Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park has been a fixture of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, since 1937, when it opened with little more than two small cages for rhesus monkeys. Nearly nine decades later, the AZA-accredited facility has grown into a compact but densely packed wildlife…
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/ September 28, 2026
Buttonwood Park Zoo sits inside New Bedford, Massachusetts’ historic Buttonwood Park, and has been introducing visitors to wildlife since 1894. That makes it the third-oldest zoo in New England and one of the oldest in the entire United States, predating most of the sprawling zoos…
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/ September 25, 2026
Audubon Zoo is a 58-acre zoo in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River side of Magazine Street. It opened in 1914 and is home to roughly 2,000 animals. It is managed by the Audubon Nature Institute and is accredited by the Association of…
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/ September 18, 2026
Flamingo Land Resort sits on 375 acres near Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire, blending a theme park, zoo, and holiday resort into a single day out. It began in 1959 when cinema entrepreneur Edwin Pentland Hick sold his cinema chain and used the proceeds to…
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/ September 13, 2026
Ouwehands Dierenpark is a zoo in Rhenen, in the Dutch province of Utrecht, set on a wooded rise called the Laarschenberg at the edge of the Utrecht Hill Ridge. It traces its roots to 1919, when Cor Ouwehand started a small farm on the Grebbeberg…
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/ September 11, 2026
Royal Burgers’ Zoo is a 45-hectare (110-acre) zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, founded in 1913 by Johan Burgers. It’s one of the largest zoos in the country, home to more than 10,000 animals representing over 500 species, and draws roughly 1.4 million visitors a year from…
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/ September 11, 2026
Paignton Zoo sits on 80 acres of parkland in Paignton, Devon, and has been caring for animals on the site since 1923, when it began as Primley Zoological Gardens, the private collection of naturalist Herbert Whitley. After his death in 1955, the collection passed to…
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/ September 9, 2026
Marwell Zoo sits on 140 acres of Hampshire parkland in Colden Common, just outside Winchester, England. Founded in 1972 by Dr John Knowles, it was established as a registered charity with conservation as its founding purpose rather than simple animal display, making it one of…
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/ September 8, 2026
Barcelona Zoo opened its gates on September 24, 1892, inside the leafy Parc de la Ciutadella, making it one of Europe’s older urban zoos still operating today. Over more than a century, it grew from a modest municipal menagerie into a full-fledged conservation and research…
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/ September 8, 2026
Blackpool Zoo opened its gates on 6 July 1972 on the site of the former Stanley Park Aerodrome in Blackpool, Lancashire. What began as a modest collection has grown into a 32-acre wildlife park that ranks among the northwest of England’s most visited attractions, drawing…
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/ September 7, 2026
Zoo Zurich has welcomed visitors to the Fluntern quarter above the city of Zurich, Switzerland, since 1929, making it the third-oldest zoo in the country. Spread across roughly 27 hectares (about 67 acres) on a hillside overlooking the city, the zoo has grown from a…
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/ September 2, 2026
Zoo Basel, affectionately nicknamed “Zolli” by locals, opened on July 3, 1874, making it the oldest zoo in Switzerland. Tucked into about 11 hectares in the heart of Basel, it has grown into the country’s largest zoo by animal population, drawing more than a million…
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/ September 1, 2026
Leipzig Zoo opened on June 9, 1878, in the German city of Leipzig and has grown into one of Europe’s most acclaimed zoological gardens. Spread across roughly 27 hectares (67 acres), it is consistently ranked as Germany’s top-rated zoo and often cited as Europe’s second-best…
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/ August 31, 2026
Tierpark Berlin opened in 1955 in the Friedrichsfelde district of East Berlin, created as the divided city’s eastern counterpart to the Berlin Zoological Garden in the west. Built around the grounds of the 17th-century Friedrichsfelde Palace, the park was laid out using landscaping traditions dating…
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/ August 29, 2026
Pairi Daiza is a sprawling zoological and botanical park in Brugelette, Belgium, built on the grounds of a former 12th-century Cistercian abbey. The park opened on May 11, 1994, as a small bird garden called Paradisio, and has since grown into one of Europe’s largest…
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/ August 29, 2026
Bioparc Valencia opened in 2008 as a new-generation zoo built around a concept called “Zooimersion,” where visitors step into recreated African ecosystems rather than viewing animals from behind bars or fences. Owned by the City Council of Valencia and designed and managed by the Spanish…
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/ August 29, 2026
Loro Parque opened on December 17, 1972, in Puerto de la Cruz on the Spanish island of Tenerife, starting as a modest home for 150 parrots on just over an acre of land. More than five decades later it has grown into one of the…
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/ August 28, 2026
Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo, formally known as Natura Artis Magistra, is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands and one of the oldest zoos in the world still in operation. Founded in 1838 by three zoology enthusiasts nicknamed ‘the three Ws’ — Gerard Westerman, J.W.H. Werlemann…
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/ August 28, 2026
Longleat Safari Park sits on the grounds of Longleat House in Wiltshire, England, and holds a unique place in wildlife tourism history: when it opened on April 5, 1966, it became the world’s first drive-through safari park outside Africa. The park was the brainchild of…
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/ August 26, 2026
Henry Vilas Zoo sits on 28 acres in Madison, Wisconsin, part of a larger parkland tract that former U.S. Senator William Freeman Vilas and his wife Anna donated to the city in 1904. They named the park after their son Henry, who had died in…
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