Zoo Băneasa is a zoo in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

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, located in a northern district of the city, called

Băneasa Băneasa () is a borough () on the north side of Bucharest, in Sector 1, near the Băneasa Lake (). Like every north-side district of Bucharest, it is relatively sparsely populated, with large areas of parkland. Bordering on Băneasa Fores ...

. The park was founded in 1955 as a service of the Municipal Household Section of the People's Council of the Capital. At that time, small livestock were spread in the parks of Cișmigiu,

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, and

Herăstrău King Michael I Park (), formerly Herăstrău Park (), is a large park on the northern side of Bucharest, Romania, around Lake Herăstrău, one of the lakes formed by the Colentina River. Geography The park has an area of about 187 ha, of whic ...

, and in Băneasa Forest. Between 1955 and 1959 there was a progressive concentration of animals in the Băneasa Zoological Corner, where on 1 May 1959 the first visiting season was opened. In 1962, the title of the institution became the Bucharest Zoo and in the same year it was included in the International Yearbook of Zoological Gardens (International Zoo Yearbook, edited by the Society of Zoology from

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). The Zoo, with a total area of , is a public facility that maintains and exposes live, wild, indigenous, and exotic collections of animals to achieve two main goals: preservation of fauna (with priority to endangered species); and training, education, and recreation of the visitor audience.

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