Last updated: 22 November 2022
| Address and contact details | |
| Phoenix Park, Dublin 8, Ireland | |
| Tel: 353 (0)1 474 8900 | |
| Fax: 353 (0)1 677 1660 | |
| Email: sbutler@dublinzoo.ie | |
| Web site: www.dublinzoo.ie | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1833 |
| Ownership: | The Council of the Zoological Society private, with state backing |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork-individual, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Zoo Associations (BIAZA and EAZA) |
| Personnel | |
| Director: | Leo Oosterweghel |
| Curator: | Stephen Butler |
| Contact person: | Stephen Butler |
| Total Staff: | approx 50 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 6 |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | near sea level |
| Soil type: | clay loam on limestone bedrock |
| Aspect: | Open, in parkland, heavily planted site |
| Total area: | 28 ha |
| Area heated: | animal houses only |
| Other sites of collection: | sister site at Fota Arboretum & Gardens in County Cork
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| Plant collection | |
| Record Keeping: | Unknown |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Teaching and Education: | plants highlighted within education where possible, many plants have signs for identification |
| Interpretation: | some plant labels, occasional displays as part of promotion or education programme |
| Friends Organisation: | volunteer helpers in education only approx 50 |
| Visitor facilities: | shops and restaurant |
| Access to the collections | |
| Public access: | as a member or on payment, all year |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 09.30 to 18.00 or dusk in winter |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Initial planting was as a garden, rose beds etc, now themed to be as naturalistic as possible, creating a green background and pleasant ambience for visitors plus planting within exhibits to recreate natural habitat. Within large scale plantings there is scope for more interesting plants. Plants now seen as just as valuable as animal exhibits. | |
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