Photos from Bucharest/Ro day 7

The Bucharest Zo

Located in Sector 1 in Bucharest. The park was founded in 1955 as a service of the Municipal Household Section of the People's Council of the Capital.

At that time, small livestock were spread in the Cişmigiu, Carol I, Herastrau and Băneasa Forests.

Between 1955-1959 there was a progressive concentration of animals at the Baneasa Zoological Corner, where on 1 May 1959 the first visiting season was opened.

Since 1962, the title of the institution has become the Bucharest Zoo and in the same year it has been included in the International Zoological Gardens (International Zoo Yearbook, edited by the Zoology Society of London).

The zoo with a total area of ​​5.85 ha is a public facility that maintains and displays live, wild, indigenous and exotic wildlife collections in order to achieve two main goals: conserving fauna (with priority for endangered species); and training, educating and recreating the visitor audience.