Beo zoo garden (Garden of Good Hope) is the city zoo of the city of Belgrade. It is located in the center of the city, at the foot of the fortress Kalemegdan, in the area known as Mali Kalemegdan. It is the first zoo in Serbia, but also the most modern.
At the Belgrade Zoo, there are currently 190 animal species and about 1,800 individuals. Of this, the most species are birds, fewer mammals, and then reptiles, several types of strawberries and flocks of piranha. In the Garden live domestic animals, but also many endangered species. Beo zoo garden also has a large collection of white animals. Albino nandui, Benet's valabia, Bengal tigers, pheasants, peacocks are a rare occurrence in the wild, but the Beo zoo garden has these animals. The special pride of the beau zoo is also the largest pawn of white lions in the world. Beo zoo is included in international projects for breeding endangered species (borneo orangutan, white lion, low tapir, bengal tiger, eagle bradan, cheetah)
The Belgrade Zoo is open to Petrovdan, July 12, 1936. On July 12, 1936, the zoological garden itself was founded and opened by the mayor Vlada Ilić on his property, [1] The garden was then twice as big as it was today and it spanned all the way to Nebojsa's tower. The first director was Aleksandar Krstic. The first inhabitants of the garden were large cats, bears, wolves, primates, birds and exotic herbivores. Many times the zoo was visited by members of the royal family Karadjordjevic. When it was created, the Belgrade Zoo covered an area of 3.5 hectares, to be expanded to 7 and eventually to 14 hectares. In that form, the Second World War awaited. He was bombarded during 1941 and 1944, and then all the animals died except for a few. Due to the destruction and reduction of the number of exhibits, the zoo was reduced to 6 hectares after the war, as it is still today. Today's image of the Garden began to get from May 1, 1986, when Vuk Bojović was appointed director.
