Zoo Atlanta is an AZA-accredited wildlife park and major attraction in Atlanta, Georgia. The 40 acre zoo, founded in 1889 as Grant Park Zoo, is located in Atlanta's Grant Park and attracts around one million visitors a year. The zoo features almost 1,000 animals representing 250 species from around the world.
Among the zoo's most notable holdings are two giant pandas, Lun Lun and Yang Yang, on loan from China's Chengdu Zoo until 2009. The $4.5 million Ford African Rain Forrest habitat is home to 23 western lowland gorillas, one of the two largest collections of the species in North America.
The Municipal Zoo, as it came to be called, gradually fell into disrepair and in 1984 was named one of the ten worst zoos in the country. Ashamed of this label, Atlanta renamed it Zoo Atlanta and hired a new administrator to rebuild the zoo. Today, the zoo has rebounded and is nationally recognized.
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