Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Dehiwala Zoo
- Colombo Zoo
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1936
History
The 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