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Whether it’s new arrivals of baby animals, reports on our involvement in species conservation, or new developments in our construction projects - here you will find all the latest news from our Zoo.

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New admission prices

Campaigns | 1 July 2024

New admission prices apply from Monday 1 July. We have created some new ticket categories to ensure that we remain affordable for Dresden ...

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Family Dixieland

"Family Dixieland" event

Campaigns | 10 April 2024

The Sächsische Zeitung’s big family festival. With games, excitement, handicrafts, face painting and prizes, as well as jazz and dixie bands ...

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Zookasper Stefan Flinner mit seinen Handpuppen.

The Zookasper goes into retirement

Campaigns | 8 April 2024

After 33 years and over 15,000 performances, Stefan Flinner is bowing out from the Zoo Kasper stage. At the age of 75, he is about to embark on ...

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Winter holiday programme

Campaigns | 26 January 2024

Enjoy a cool trip to Dresden Zoo this winter. Between 10th and 25th February, find out all about your favourite animals every day at 11 am, with ...

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Messen des trampeltieres bei der tierinventur

Annual inventory at the zoo

Campaigns | 10 January 2024

As we start the new year, we look back on the old one and look forward to an exciting year at the zoo in 2024. Exciting, because this year we ...

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Beastly fun – Zoo tram goes on maiden voyage.

Beastly fun – Zoo tram goes on maiden voyage

Bauprojekte | 25 January 2023

Following on from the “In echt ganz anders” (“Something different in the flesh”) tram, in which made-up animals “borrowed” their fur ...

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Terrarium remains open until 31 October

Campaigns | 20 October 2022

Come and visit our terrarium one last time. This autumn holiday is your last chance to see the animals in our terrarium. We ...

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Visualisierung der Innenansicht des neuen Orang-Utan-Hauses.

Orangutan House construction update

Bauprojekte | 17 August 2022

Last summer, we started work on our biggest project to date ‒ the new Orangutan House. Despite one or two complications such as the Covid-19 ...

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Free zoo admission for refugees from Ukraine

Campaigns | 17 March 2022

The daily news coming out of Ukraine has left us shocked and appalled. Alongside our horror at the human suffering, we are naturally ...

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Zwei Gänsegeier sitzen in ihrer Brutbox.

BREEDING SEASON FOR THE GRIFFON VULTURES

Campaigns | 4 February 2022

While most birds only start breeding in spring, our vultures in the large aviary were way ahead of the game back in January. At the ...

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