Doha Zoo

Doha Zoological Garden حديقة حيوان الدوحة
Doha Zoo in 2006
Date opened	February 1984
Date closed	2013
Land area	75 hectares (185.3 acres)[1]
Annual visitors	None (closed) Before closure(100+ people)
Major exhibits	Zoo, aviary, cave

The Doha Zoo was a Zoological garden established in Qatar in February 1984. It was closed in 2012 for renovations,^[2][3] with a scheduled reopening in 2017, but as of July 2025, it is still closed. ^[1][4]

In 2023, Doha Zoo and Al Khor Park Zoo recorded 265 new animal births among various species.^[5]

Doha Zoo was going to be opened as a safari park in 2017, known as the Doha Safari Park, which includes hotels, and 3 different world areas like the South American Rainforest, Asian Woodland and the African Safari. This involved demolition of Doha Zoo’s old buildings and space to make way for new buildings. But as of July 2025, the old zoo’s buildings remain untouched.

Doha Zoo's concept began in 1973. Some conceptual ideas included a lagoon at the zoo's center featuring waterbirds, which are under a shady protective roof. As a result, it took decades for Doha Zoo's construction to be completed. Finally, the zoo, after years of concepts and construction, opened to the public in February 1984.

After the zoo’s closure, while some animals remained in their old cages, others were moved to Rawdat Al Faras, or the Al Khor Park, which was renovated in 2016, and now features a mini zoo.

The zoo planned to reopen after a decade-long lockdown in fiscal year 2024 without remodelling, which would lead to the downfall of the safari park idea.

There was meant to be a facility that would keep animals during the zoo’s demolition and rebuilding, but it never materialized, therefore why animals had to be relocated to alternate facilities such as Al Khor Zoo and Rawdat Al Faras, and some remained in the old zoo.

There are now plans for the old zoo to reopen, including one that would occur in the Fiscal Year in 2024.