page_title: Yerevan Zoo
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Yerevan Zoo / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Yerevan Zoo
context_page_description: The Yerevan Zoo, also known as the Zoological Garden of Yerevan, is a 35-hectare zoo established in 1940 in Yerevan, Armenia.
context_section_description: In 2012 the zoo, in cooperation with the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC), the municipality of Yerevan, and the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, will open a zoo school. The main purpose of this school will be to teach schoolchildren the importance of biodiversity in Armenia and around the world, and it will use the zoo as an interactive classroom.
caption: The entrance to the zoo
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