Prague zoo sees record number of visitors

The Prague zoo has reported 1.3 million visitors this year, having already broken a record from 2009 when just under 1.3 million people visited the facility in the course of the year. In the past decade the number of visitors to the zoo has doubled as well as the number of animals kept. At the end of 2001 the Prague zoo kept 1,981 animals of 415 different species. At the end of last year it kept 4,422 animals of 672 different species. The zoo saw a construction boom after a flood in 2002 had destroyed its low-lying parts inflicting damage worth some 232 million crowns.