Zone d'identification
Type of entity
Collectivité
Forme autorisée du nom
National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
- Dehiwala Zoo
- Colombo Zoo
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates d’existence
1936
Historique
National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka is a zoological garden in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, founded in 1936. What is known today as the National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka was founded by John Hagenbeck in the late 1920s. During John Hagenbeck's ownership of the zoos the facility was used as a collection centre by his colleague Heinz Randow who collected numerous native and exotic species from across Asia, for Hagenbeck's zoo; Tierpark Hagenbeck