Despite the difficulties associated with the power outage, we hold sessions of the contact zoo "Zoo in the palm of your hand", where you can not only learn interesting facts about animals, but also pet them, communicate with them. Our little visitors especially like such events.
"Zoo in the palm…
17/12/2025
November 20 is Universal Children's Day, which is also the new Children's Day in Ukraine from 2025. This day is associated with the anniversaries of the adoption of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and is aimed at…
20/11/2025
The cheerful holiday of Halloween for zoo educators is a good occasion to talk about "scary, terrible, creepy" animals, which are often actually very useful, not scary at all. Many of them, on the contrary, are an important component of the ecosystem.
Mykolaiv Zoo is no exception. For many years,…
31/10/2025
October 23 is International Snow Leopard Day. The holiday was established in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, at the World Snow Leopard Conservation Forum in 2013. This day was created to draw attention to the endangered species and is aimed at preserving the snow leopard. It was almost destroyed by…
24/10/2025
World Environmental Education Day is celebrated on 14 October, in honor of the 1977 Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The day is dedicated to raising awareness of environmental issues, promoting environmental education worldwide, and encouraging conscious action for a sustainable future. Although 14 October is the…
14/10/2025
Every year, on October 4, World Animal Day is celebrated. It is held to raise public awareness of the need to protect our environment.
The history of this day begins in 1925. It was first organized in Berlin by the German writer and animal rights activist Heinrich Zimmermann. He actively…
04/10/2025
Today, September 21, 2025, our sisters, Siberian tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) Penelopa and Agrypyna, celebrate their anniversary. They were born in 2005 at Mykolaiv Zoo. Today they are already 20 years old! This is a very respectable age for tigers, because in natural conditions tigers live for 12-15 years. But…
23/09/2025
Today our native Mykolaiv celebrates City Day! Despite all the difficulties, the war, and the trials, Mykolaiv is on the wave of life!
Mykolaiv Zoo has joined the festival of festive events dedicated to this date. In addition, traditionally, simultaneously with the city day, we celebrate the birthday of the…
16/09/2025
In Ukraine, as in the rest of the world, World Crane Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of September. The purpose of the holiday is to remind people of the importance of joining efforts to protect these unique birds, which are part of the ecosystem and culture of many…
16/09/2025
