Fundação Zoo-Botânica

City: Belo Horizonte

Country: Brazil

State: Minas Gerais

Opend 1959 

Species 250

The Zoo-Botanic Foundation of Belo Horizonte (BH-FZB) is considered the second largest public green area of the city. They are 144 hectares of forest in the cerrado, in Pampulha. The FZB also houses the Zoo, the Botanical Garden of Belo Horizonte and the Ecological Park of Pampulha. The Foundation has over a thousand animals of 250 different species from Asia, Africa and Europe. It is possible to see a butterfly, which shows the life cycle of butterflies and a nursery with two thousand copies of different colors. Since 2010 the garden also has an aquarium. At the Botanical Garden, one learns about the rise of the Earth from the plants. There are greenhouses with representations of the Atlantic forest and savanna, and squares and gardens of medicinal and aromatic plants, bromeliads and palm trees.