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Established in 1904, The Johannesburg Zoo provides a fun and educational day out for all the family and is one of the Johannesburg’s most popular tourist venues. The Zoo has a number of different key facets to it, on the forefront of which is the education of the general public. At every given opportunity they try to embed the importance of caring for our environment. This is achieved through numerous awareness programmes and what they have innovatively named ‘edutainment’ (education & entertainment), such as smell, hear, touch and feel programmes that are held throughout the year.

Of course the primary purpose of any Zoo is to provide a safe living environment for the animals and Johannesburg Zoo houses a fantastic 2,070 animals, covering 365 different species which are spread offer an area of 54 hectares. There are so many animals for you to learn about from polar bears, chimpanzees, hippos, and elephants to crocodiles, gorillas, white lions and Siberian tigers. A visit to Johannesburg Zoo really does offer you a chance to see hundreds of animals all housed in state of the art enclosures and is without doubt one of the best ways in which you can learn about wildlife that used to roam freely in the area.