On January 14, Nicole Scherwinski visited Mykolaiv Zoo. She came to our zoo from Nuremberg and brought gifts for our elephants, Dinkar and Shanti, - hay nets made from natural materials by Garry White. These are gifts from the European Elephant Group. Nicole is a member of this organization. She…
15/01/2026
Today, the staff of Mykolaiv Zoo congratulated our senior administrator, Iryna Hryhorivna Hordiienko, on a special date – 25 years of continuous work at the zoo!
Over the years of work at the zoo, she has proven herself as a qualified specialist, a conscientious employee, performing her duties at a…
10/01/2026
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
