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Europe
The first modern zoo, established particularly for scientific and educational purposes according to its founders, was the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes as part of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris (1793). The Paris Ménagerie was the first genuinely scientifically-oriented garden, the first one to be directed by a naturalist, and it can thus lay a legitimate claim to be the first modern zoo.It was, significantly, laid out like a picturesque park -- a semblance of Nature emphasized by Rousseau -- while the buildings themselves housed caged animals as if in museum display cabinets. [29] About thirty years later, the Zoological Society of London was founded in 1826 by Stamford Raffles. The Zoological Society of London stated in its charter that its aim was "the advancement of zoology and animal physiology and the introduction of new and curious subjects of the animal kingdom". The members of the Zoological Society of London adopted the idea of the early Paris zoo when they established London Zoo as a scientific zoo in 1827.It opened on April 27, 1828, in Regent's Park, admitting members and their guests. Only in 1847 were working people allowed in, for a shilling. London Zoo admitted paying visitors to aid funding of its scientific work. The taxonomic presentation of animals at the London Zoo became the model for the nineteenth century. The success of London Zoo set off a Victorian wave of similar establishments.

Wealthy citizens and interested scientists founded zoological societies following the standard of the Zoological Society of London. The Royal Zoological Society of Ireland was founded in 1830, "to form a collection of living animals on the plan to the Zoological Society of London". In 1833, Dublin Zoological Gardens opened in Phoenix Park.Bristol Zoo, the Zoological Garden of the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society, was the very first one to be founded through a shareholding company in 1835. It was opened in 1836 in the Clifton section of Bristol, England.

On continental Europe, the first modern zoos in Belgium and the Netherlands were established in their major ports.
The first of these societies was established in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1838. It was the Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra (Zoological Society Natura Artis Magistra), which received the supplement "Koninglijk" (Royal) in 1852. In 1838, an appeal for the formation of a zoological society was published under the title, Natura Artis Magistra (Latin for Nature is the Master of Arts) and about 120 people joined the new society. Artis, as the Amsterdam Zoo is popular known, opened on May 1, 1838.
The first attempt to establish a zoological garden in Belgium, came with the formation of a society with royal patronage in 1841. The organization, the Société royale de zoologie à Anvers (Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp), had opened Belgium's first modern zoo in Antwerp in 1843.

The history of modern zoos in Germany began in 1841, when King Friedrich Wilhelm IV presented to the city of Berlin his pheasantry in the Tiergarten and all the animals on the Pfaueninsel, together with their cages and animal houses, as the basis of a municipal zoo. The Berlin Zoo, was constructed in 1841 on the site of the former royal pheasant run in the Tiergarten at Charlottenburg. Friedrich Wilhelm IV not only donated in 1841 the site of his pheasantry to the newly-founded shareholders' association Zoo Aktiengesellschaft, but also donated 850 animals from the royal menagerie, which moved in 1844 from Peacock Island (“Pfaueninsel”) to Tiergarten.The Berlin Zoo, the first in Germany, was opened on August 1, 1844, and today houses more than 14.000 species.
On August 8, 1858, Germany's second zoo was opened by citizens of the city of Frankfurt, the Frankfurt Zoological Society. The first grounds were leasehold land, and a new location had to be found. The new Frankfurt Zoological Garden was built in the style of a landscape garden, and inaugurated on March 29, 1874.
Cologne Zoological Garden, the third German zoo, was founded by citizens of Cologne, who formed a shareholding company, and opened in 1860. [38]
Zoo Dresden, Germany's fourth zoo, was founded in 1861. The first plans for the new zoo were drawn up by German landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné. The founding of the zoo was strongly supported by the king of Saxony as well as the people of Dresden, some of whom formed a zoological society to assist the endeavor. An area of 32-acre (13 ha) within a large park adjacent to the city center was given to the society to use for the zoo.
The Zoologische Gesellschaft in Hamburg (Zoological Society of Hamburg) was a shareholding company chartered on July 10, 1860. A 32-acre (13 ha) site was leased from the corporation of Hamburg in August 1861, initially for 50 years (later renewed every ten years). By November 1862 most of the infrastructure and the animal houses had been completed. Alfred Edmund Brehm appointed director took up his post in January 1863. The Hamburg Zoological Garden was opened to the general public on May 17, 1863.The society-run zoo was one of Europe's major gardens until it closed down, a victim of the Great Depression and competition from Hagenbeck, in 1930.
In 1860, the citizens of Hannover formed a society to establish a zoo in the city on the River Leine, and on May 4, 1865 the Zoologischer Garten Hannover opened its gates. The city went into partnership with the Ruhe animal trading company from Alfeld to the south of Hannover. The entire Hannover Zoo was leased by Firm Hermann Ruhe between 1931 to 1971 and became during those years the animal trader's "shop window".

The world’s first acclimatization society was the Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation, founded in Paris in 1854.The founding president was Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, professor of zoology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and director of the Ménagerie (created in 1793). In 1860 Isidore and his son, Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, opened Jardin Zoologique d’Acclimatation, located in the Bois de Boulogne, west of Paris.

The idea to create a zoological garden in Moscow came in 1857 when professors at the Moscow University established the first Society of Acclimatization in Russia. In 1862, the society was reorganized and given the name Tsar's Society for the Acclimatization of Plants and Animals. In 1863, this society was eventually able to buy property for its future zoo, where it still exists. The opening ceremony of the Moscow Zoological Gardens took place on February 12, 1864. A second Russian zoological garden was opened only one year later. The St. Petersburg Zoo opened to the public at its present site on August 1, 1865. The Moscow Zoo was designated national property in 1919. The zoo in St. Petersburg was nationalized in 1919, the same year as the one in Moscow.

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