Today the zoo has suffered a great loss – Valentyna Makarivna Yakunina has passed away.
Her entire life was devoted to the zoo. Our institution stands on people like her – on their dedication and love.
Valentyna Makarivna began working at Mykolaiv Zoo in 1968, when she was only 19…
10/02/2026
The message of the column "School of the Young Zoo Correspondent” today is dedicated to the International Zebra Day. Young biologists visited our zebras, prepared a story about them and took interesting photos.
“Every year on January 31, the world celebrates International Zebra Day. This is not just a holiday,…
31/01/2026
Every year on January 26, the world celebrates World Environmental Education Day. The purpose of this day is to raise people's awareness of global and local environmental problems and the importance of active participation in the preservation and protection of the environment.
The idea arose at the UN Conference on…
30/01/2026
The Christmas Bird Count is an annual global event that takes place every year at the end of January and is the largest event for studying wintering birds in the world. The tradition of counting birds was born in 1900 in the USA, when the editor of the ornithological magazine…
29/01/2026
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
