Friday 21 January, 2022
Three outbreaks of bird flu have been detected in the past three months in Ireland.
Zoos and wildlife parks are permitted to reopen from today.
The announcement follows a fundraising campaign launched last month by Dublin Zoo.
During the week over €2 million was raised in an appeal to support Dublin Zoo.
The zoo is estimating its losses in potential revenue for the year are around €8.2m.
Dublin Zoo launched the ‘Save Dublin Zoo’ fundraising campaign today.
Its gates were shut to the public in March.
Tickets to attend Dublin Zoo must now be pre-booked online in advance, solely via its website.
Profits last year decreased by 71% from €2.6 million to €765,000.
The pack’s new 4,000 square metre space includes a water feature and three visitor shelters.
They’re almost grown-up.
We spoke to photographer Patrick Bolger on what it was like taking those intimate photographs of mother and baby.
The zoo is inviting the public to suggest names for the cubs.
Ireland has plenty to offer visitors at home and abroad – but there’s just no pleasing some people.
The dangerous weather has led Dublin Zoo to cancel its Wild Lights event today and tomorrow.
This year’s theme ‘Ocean of Light’ explores sea life while three new areas have also been added.
Ruari Owens suffered psychological injury over the incident, the court heard.
Lounging by the pool is an activity all mammals seem to enjoy.
A “substantial amount” of the money has been recovered but detectives are now probing the origins of the scam.
The monkeys jumped 20 feet from a climbing frame in their habitat before running riot in the zoo grounds.
Do they know it’s Christmas time at all? (Sorry.)
The zoo will light up every evening till the beginning of January.
The new exhibit features ‘Stan’ a life-sized replica fossil skeleton of a male adult tyrannosaurus rex.
Even in the best circumstances, it’s impossible for zoos to meet all the unique needs of the various species they hold captive, writes Elisa Allen.
Giraffes, penguins and white rhinos are among the 108 animals to die at the zoo.
The measure was taken to prevent birds from contracting bird flu from wild birds.
The organisation came back from the brink during the noughties after years of financial instability.
She is the first calf born to the first Asian elephant born in the zoo.
There were as little as 50 southern white rhinoceroses left in the wild in the early 1900s – now there are as many as 20,000.
Photographs of the incident were shared on Twitter.
A post-mortem is being carried out.
