The legacy of former Pretoria Zoo elephant Charlie, now Duma, might set to influence a landmark Gauteng High Court case over ...

Pretoria - To enhance its site and offering to visitors, the National Zoological Gardens, or Pretoria Zoo, is rehousing capybaras, the largest rodents in the animal kingdom, which it last exhibited in ...

Zoos are not good places for elephants, and for Charlie it was worse. In his sandy, desert-like enclosure at the Pretoria Zoo, he witnessed the death of his female companions and his young son, Deneo.

Finally, and 30 years after democracy, the last elephant in South Africa's only national zoo has been freed. After a nail-biting a trip lasting four hours towards freedom, the EMS Foundation has ...

An Irene resident’s call for tree branches in her WhatsApp group for the Pretoria Zoo, the National Zoological Gardens, accidentally went viral overnight and had residents from as far as the borders ...

When the global community came together to celebrate World Giraffe Day on June 21, the National Zoological Gardens (NZG) in Pretoria had its own reason to celebrate with the arrival of a giraffe calf ...

‘We’re trying to get away from the freak show concept of a zoo, to a facility that’s helping us with our broader battle for conservation and biodiversity protection,’ said Forestry, Fisheries and ...

A tiger cub that was found in a Pietermaritzburg home where it was kept as a pet in a makeshift wire enclosure, has been moved to the Pretoria Zoo. The cub was held at a property in Northern Park, ...

Jamshedpur, Oct. 4: Tata Steel Zoological Park may once again give its visitors a roaring welcome. The authorities of National Zoological Garden, Pretoria, have promised to look into the zoo’s request ...

The Pretoria Zoo on Sunday said it had insured that security measures have been increased in the wake of two crimes committed in its proximity. “We are aware of two cases of crime-related incidents ...