Serengeti National Park is something like the nucleus of today’s conservation commitment of Frankfurt Zoological Society. Here, the first steps were made towards a fully-grown programme designed to protect outstanding wilderness areas and national parks. Today, FZS works in 18 countries on four continents.
Ever since Bernhard Grzimek’s first expeditions to Africa in the 1950s, Grzimek began to support the African national parks with “his” Zoological Society and with donations he collected from viewers who watched his TV show “Ein Platz für Tiere” (A Place for Animals).