Natural scientist appointed head of Prague zoo

Czech News Agency

Prague, (CTK) – The Prague Council has appointed natural scientist Miroslav Bobek, new director of the Prague zoo, the Prague City Hall said in a statement yesterday.

Bobek, 42, former director of the Czech Radio Online and editor-in-chief of Czech Radio’s Leonardo radio station, will head the zoo as of January 2010. He will replace Petr Fejk who headed the zoo over 12 years and who left the post at the end of October.

Fejk took up the newly established post of head of the Czech National Building in new York as of November. Under his leadership, the Prague zoo became one of the most frequently visited Czech institutions. Some 1.2 million people annually visit it.

Bobek, who graduated from Prague’s Charles University Faculty of Natural Sciences, told CTK previously that he proposed in his vision of the future of the zoo which he presented to the selection commission that a greater emphasis should be put on the presentation of animals in the context of biotopes. He said he wanted to use new technologies for the presentation and communication with visitors, improve services to visitors, including transport services.

While working for the public Czech Radio, Bobek promoted various natural scientific projects, for instance, the monitoring of the migration of black storks from the Czech Republic to their winter quarter in Africa.

In the past Bobek cooperated, apart from the Prague zoo, also with the zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labem in east Bohemia.

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