The diversity of Vienna’s flora and fauna

The Vienna Woods Biosphere Reserve, the Lainz Game Preserve and the Lobau - part of the Donau-Auen National Park - offer a unique habitat for many animals and plants. Yet the green city center, numerous communal gardens, landscaped house walls and roof terraces as well as around 27,000 allotments also contribute to Vienna's impressive array of species. Here are a few key figures:

• 135 protected species of butterfly
• 320 nesting sites for kestrels
• 20 species of bat (out of a total of 28 species across Austria)
• 200 beavers in the Lobau
• 19 species of fish in the Old Danube.

In addition, around 600 beekeepers are active in Vienna. Perhaps the best-known beehives are situated on the roofs of the Vienna State Opera, the Burgtheater and the Old General Hospital. Schönbrunn Zoo, the oldest zoo in the world, is concerned with humane animal keeping: the complicated natural breeding of the threatened panda bear has twice been successful here, with Fu Long (2009) and Fu Hu (2010). And the Schönbrunn Palm House contains an example of the "Wollemia nobilis", one of the rarest and oldest species of tree in the world, with a history going back 200 million years. Vienna is therefore in possession of the oldest example in Europe.

Events Tips:

• Vienna Species Diversity Day:
• Species Protection Days at Schönbrunn Zoo: August 29 to September 1, 2013
• Am Himmel Bee Festival

Schönbrunn Zoo (Tiergarten Schönbrunn) Entrance via Hietzinger Tor / Hietzinger Hauptstraße

1130   Wien
www.zoovienna.at

Map Accessibility Details

Guide dogs permitted

Main entrance

• Main entrance no steps (Swing door).

Parking spaces Main entrance

disabled parking spaces available.
at Elisabethallee, entrance Tirolerhof

More information

Restrooms with access for disabled persons available.

Special offers for disabled persons

Tours for visitors with disabilities and special needs on request.

Comments

Access to buildings and enclosures without steps or via ramp.

Contacts

• +43-1-877 92 94
• office@zoovienna.at

Opening hours

• January
  Daily 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• February
  Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• March
  Daily 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• April to September
  Daily 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
• October to the end of October
  Daily 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• November to December
  Daily 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Prices

• Cheaper with the Vienna Card

Palm House (Palmenhaus) in Schönbrunn Palace Gardens, entrance at Hietzinger Tor

1130   Wien
www.bundesgaerten.at

Map Accessibility Details

Guide dogs permitted

Main entrance

• Main entrance 1 Steps (Swing door 110cm wide).
• Ramp 110 cm long, 18 cm high.

Special offers for disabled persons

Tours for visitors with special needs on request (groups of more than 10).

Comments

Floor quite moist in some places. Admission for escort free in some cases.

Contacts

• +43 1 87 75 08 74 06
• office@bundesgaerten.at

Opening hours

• May to September
  Daily 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• October to April
  Daily 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Palm House is closed from 2 April to the end of November 2013 for remodeling.

Prices

• Adults € 4,00
• Young people under 19 € 3,00