New Zoo

The development of the Old Zoo was impeded by its location and there were repeated efforts to relocate the entire facility to a more suitable site. However, these attempts did not come to fruition until the 1960s, when work began on the construction of a completely new zoo. In 1967, the Social Committee for the Construction of the New Zoo was established with the aim of raising funds for the project. The construction of the new zoo began three years later and on September 16, 1974, the first part of the site was opened to the public. The first animals displayed in the New Zoo were European deer, fallow deer, camels, llamas, and Andean guanacos. In 1978, an insectarium pavilion was added to the facility, showcasing insects, arachnids, and molluscs. In 1995, the first Pavilion of Nocturnal Animals in Poland was opened, and a rhinoceros was imported for the first time to the zoo.

The Biała Góra zoo is home to many animals that are facing the threat of extinction. Some of the examples include the predatory kowari marsupial, golden-headed lion, helmeted cassowary, Bawean deer, Vissai pig, Alfred's deer, milu deer, Grevy's zebra, Rothschild's giraffe, Siberian tiger, African elephant, European ground squirrel, European bison, and the European mink, which is Europe's most endangered predatory mammal. Additionally, the breeding of the perewian and the small lori is coordinated by the zoo under the European Program for the Protection of Animals in Endangered with Extinction.

In December 2014, the zoo welcomed two subspecies of takin - the Tibetan and golden takin - which were brought from Berlin. Furthermore, in December 2015, the European otter was introduced to the zoo after several years of absence.

Since 2003, the Biała Góra zoo has been actively breeding Alfred's deer, which is native to the Philippines. As a result of their successful breeding program, the fortieth representative of this species was born in the zoo in early 2016.

The elephant house pavilion was opened in 2008, featuring an indoor paddock with separate stables for the male and individual boxes for the female elephants, as well as a 2.5-hectare outdoor paddock. The first elephants, two males named Ninio and Yzika, were brought from Sosto Zoo in Hungary on March 10, 2009. Three females, Linda from Beekse Bergen Safari Park in the Netherlands, Kinga, and Kizi from the Silesian Zoological Garden, were also added to the herd that same year. In March 2016, a 12-year-old elephant named Yzik was transported from Poznań to the Safari Park in Fasano, Italy. Tragically, in February 2021, Linda, a 35-year-old elephant (born in 1986 in Zimbabwe) fell ill and passed away unexpectedly.

The Lynx Paddock, a large enclosure that mimics a natural forest habitat for European lynxes, was opened to the public on April 2, 2013. This new addition to the New Zoo was a much-anticipated event, as it gave visitors a chance to observe these beautiful creatures in their natural surroundings.

In addition to the Lynx Paddock, the New Zoo also boasts an asylum for bears. This 3-hectare area was constructed in cooperation with the German-Austrian foundation Vier Pfoten (Four Paws) and was specifically designed to provide a safe and comfortable home for rescued bears. In October 2013, the first three brown bears, named Wania, Misza, and Borys, were brought to the asylum from a shelter in Korabiewice.

Over the next few years, the asylum grew in size and popularity, as more bears were rescued and brought to the facility. In 2016, four bears were added to the group, including two bears named Ewka and Genia who were rescued from the Zoological Garden in Braniewo, as well as a two-month-old female bear named Cisna, who was found without her mother in the Bieszczady Mountains. Additionally, a mutilated four-year-old brown bear named Baloo was rescued from a circus and brought to the asylum in July of the same year. Today, there are a total of five bears residing in the asylum.

In recent years, the New Zoo has undergone further renovations and expansion. In 2021, a two-story pavilion for giraffes and rhinos was completed, offering visitors an even more diverse range of animals to observe. In March 2022, a total of nine lions, six tigers, two caracals, and a wild dog were relocated to the zoo from asylums near Kiev and Odessa. These new additions have made the New Zoo an even more exciting and educational destination for visitors of all ages.