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Zoo Basel is Switzerland's oldest and largest zoo. In 1870, the Ornithologiegesellschaft together with the city of Basel started a project of establishing a zoo where visitors could see Swiss and European animals. Zoo Basel emerged from that project, and opened its doors on July 3rd 1874

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Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park and located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains

The Baghdad Zoo is a 200 acre zoo originally opened in 1971 and located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the Al Zawra'a Gardens area along with the Al Zawra'a Dream Park and Zawra'a Tower. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the zoo housed 650 animals. After being nearly destroyed during the 2003 Iraqi war, when only about 35 animals survived, the zoo was reopened in 2003 and now houses about 1,070 animals

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A small group of British and foreign bird-keeping enthusiasts met in Brighton in 1894 with a view to forming a society devoted to their interests. The newly formed society started with 52 members. In November of that year, the first issues of the society's magazine carried an editorial in which the joint editors proposed that members should be known as aviculturists