The zoo in Yaroslavl – the first in the CIS and Russia Zoological Park landscape type. The zoo covers an area of 123 ha. This allows you to invest in spacious enclosures and contain Pets as close to their natural conditions, which certainly improves their quality of life compared with animals in other zoos. Zoo workers are trying to create favorable conditions for life and reproduction of animals.

The mission of the Yaroslavl zoo is to carry out educational work to bring awareness for the need to preserve the diversity of the animal world, without which it is impossible the existence of the human species. More than half of the population of Yaroslavl already visited the zoo, many repeatedly. This popularity Zoological Park allows you to carry out educational work particularly effectively, including among the younger generation.

One of the main goals of the zoo is conservation in captivity of wild animals for the preservation and development of their species. In the Yaroslavl zoo successfully live: Bactrian camel, brown bear, wolves, deer, African ostrich, elk, pheasant, Flamingo, wild boars, Vietnamese pigs, European fallow deer, reindeer, antelope, Eland, mute Swan, home duck, the Przewalski's horse, llama, bison, Cheetah, kangaroo, and other animals.

The zoo developed a strategy for the conservation of nature, according to which is determined by the set of goals and challenges that are faced by the zoo. The protection of the nature of the zoo include: monitoring the number of rare species of animals in their natural habitats in the Yaroslavl region and in Russia in General; breeding in a zoo wild animal species; research on determination favorable to animal life conditions; creation of the conditions of the zoo is the optimal environment which is extremely close to natural; the return of rare species of animals back into natural habitats; monitoring of released animals. The zoo has extensive educational work, which is organically linked with the process of education, spiritual enrichment and fostering of a sense of beauty.

The zoo in Yaroslavl makes a huge contribution to nature conservation, which is to preserve the gene pool of endangered and rare species of animals listed in the Red book as Yaroslavl oblast, Russia and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. 172 species of animals listed in the Red book of the Yaroslavl region some, such as the black stork, grey snake, osprey, peregrine Falcon, short-toed eagle, lesser spotted eagle, Golden eagle, greater spotted eagle have international protection status. The reproduction of these animals in captivity will allow subsequently to restore natural populations.

Research conducted at the zoo, aimed at creating extremely favorable conditions for the maintenance of individual species and their breeding in captivity, improve the methods of education in the field of nature protection.

Yaroslavl zoo is a powerful scientific and educational base for the needs of the educational process for students of technical schools, biological faculty of Yaroslavl University, agricultural Academy, pedagogical Institute. On the basis of the zoo is scheduled to open ecological and Zoological circles. Pupils and students caring for animals, cleaning the territory of the zoo and aviaries.

Yaroslavl zoo holds various group tours for schools, acquainting the younger generation with the biology of various animal species, the diversity of the animal world, the problems of nature protection. Guided tours, thematic talks, extra classes are of great interest among the visitors of the zoo, regardless of their age. At the zoo permanently arranged children's parties with prizes and contests.