![]() ![]() It was our integration with global conservation strategies and local communities that paved the way to the Zoo’s 21st Century role. ![]() We have constantly changed and evolved since 1836, but the 1980s and 1990s saw Bristol Zoo Gardens really start to become the zoo it is today. Shareholders at the time included several famous Bristolians, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Riley, and a number of other prominent local individuals, gathered with the mission to facilitate ‘the observation of habits, form and structure of the animal kingdom, as well as affording rational amusement and recreation to the visitors of the neighbourhood’. Our Zoo was founded on 22nd July 1835, by Henry Riley, a local physician, who led the formation of the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society. Avon Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project Eventsīristol Zoo is the fifth oldest zoo in the world. ![]()
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