EAZA BioBank

The EAZA-BioBank was established to support population management and species conservation in zoos and beyond with genetic methods. The Leibniz-IZW acts as one of four hubs that store the samples from the zoos on behalf of EAZA and make them available for research purposes upon request (after approval by EAZA). As a hub, we do not carry out any analyses on the samples stored with us.

Zoos wishing to send sample material to the EAZA BioBank should use the EAZA BioBank protocol for sample collection (see link below).

Researchers who wish to obtain access to sample material from the EAZA BioBank should use the document Request for sample use - Application form (https://www.eaza.net/biobank-resources/).

The inventory of our hub currently comprises 2283 samples of 495 species that have been sent by 85 zoos (see chart below).

_{*Sorted by number of samples (14-1): Zoo Zlin-Lesna | Zoo Neuwied | Zoopark Düsseldorf | Tierpark Chemnitz | Vogelpark Walsrode | Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen | Wildpark Schwarze Berge | Zoo Zürich | Hannover Zoo | Zoo Magdeburg | Zoologischer Garten Halle | Zoo Usti nad Labem | Tierpark Nordhorn | Zoo Hoyerswerda | Zoo Köln | Zoo Pilsen | Biopark Valencia | Zoo Warzawa | Zoo Wroclaw | Zoo La Garenne | Bundesforst Schwarzborn | Zoo Zagreb | ZOO Vivarium Darmstadt | Zoopark Erfurt | Zoo Neuwied | Zoo Zamosc | Zoo Aschersleben | Zoo Duisburg AG | Natur- und Tierpark Goldau | Vogelpark Marlow | Zoo Olomouc | Zoo Pilsen | Zoo Ostrava | Zoo Dortmund | Zoologischer Garten Torun | Tierwelt Herberstein (Graz) | Zoologischer Garten Halle | Alpenzoo Innsbruck | Zoo Lodz | Wildgehege Moritzburg | Zoo Rostock | Tiergarten Schönbrunn (Wien) | Zoo Ebeltoft | Zoo Gdansk | Tierpark Görlitz | Zoo Krakow | Zoo Leipzig | Zoologischer Garten Liberec | Zoo Linz | Zoo Schwerin | Zoo Sofia | Zoo Dvur Kralove | Tierpark Hagenbeck | Zoo de La Palmyre | Zoo Berlin | Tierpark Bern | Zoopark Chomutov | Zoo Dresden | Steirischer Landestiergarten | Zoo HLUBOKA | Biotopwildpark Anholter Schweiz Isselburg | Papiliorama Kerzers | Tiergarten Kleve | Zoo Dvur Kralove | Amerika Tierpark Limbach-Oberfrohna | Tiergarten Ludwigslust}


This overview shows the number of samples submitted from 2018 to 2025:


 

Most of the samples in 2025 came from the following zoos:
 



 

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Useful documents:

EAZA BioBank sampling protocol

Contact

Prof Dr Jörns Fickel
Phone: +49(0)30 5168314
Email: fickel@izw-berlin.de

 

Last updated on February, 19th, 2026