Nature and Biodiversity

The Black Meadow Community Park – at the site of the former market near Ostrava’s exhibition centre – has recently been re-opened. This is one… Read »

The footpath above the river by the Miloš Sýkora Bridge will now become accessible for wheelchairs. The city will also build a viewing platform and… Read »

Biologists and geomorphologists from the Science Faculty at the University of Ostrava are launching a unique new research project focusing on Ostrava’s slag-heaps – the… Read »

For three consecutive years, a female Blue-eyed black lemur has given birth to a youngling in Zoo Ostrava. She successfully raised her babies born in… Read »

This year, the central city district is trying a new way of maintaining green areas in selected locations, especially in parks. The resulting meadow grass… Read »

Last week saw the seventh planting of trees in the Youth Orchard in the Bělský Wood in the Ostrava-Jih city district. 54 new trees were… Read »

The garden, where the city fortifications used to be in the past and whose remains are still visible, will undergo a total revitalization. The higher… Read »

The Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, in collaboration with the City of Ostrava, will carry out a unique research on nesting ecology of singing… Read »

The planting of trees on the occasion of the birth of children is very popular among the citizens of the city district Ostrava-Jih. The sixth… Read »

This year, Zoo Ostrava started breeding a new animal species – honey bees (Apis mellifera). The main reason for the breeding of bees is the… Read »