Warsaw Zoological Garden

The Warsaw Zoological Garden, known simply as the Warsaw Zoo is a scientific zoo located alongside the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland. The zoo covers around 40 hectares 99 sections of land in focal Warsaw, and sees around 1,000,000 guests yearly, making it one of the busiest zoos in Europe. It is home to more than 4,200 creatures speaking to in excess of 500 species. The zoo is an authorize individual from the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria EAZA and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums WAZA. The Warsaw Zoo filled in as a concealing spot for Jews and escapees from the Warsaw Ghetto amid World War II.

Zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski, in charge of sparing several Jews inside the zoo premises, were in the long run allowed the title of Righteous Among the Nations for their commitment, exertion and positive attitude. These occasions were reported in the novel The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman and in the 2017 war show film featuring Jessica Chastain. In spite of the fact that the present zoo was opened on 11 March 1928, it roots can be followed to seventeenth century private zoological gardens, regularly open to the general population. Ruler John III Sobieski kept a court zoological display in Wilanow, and the nineteenth century saw a few private zoos opened in the city.