Peshawar Zoo was established for promoting conservation education and research in biological social sciences; and to provide healthy recreation and entertainment opportunities to the inhabitants of Peshawar in particular and visitors from other areas in general.

Animals and Birds in Zoo

Predators: African Lion, black bear, common leopard, tiger, Asiatic wolf, jackal, civet cat, striped hyena

Mammals: Spotted deer, grey goral, mouflon sheep, zebra, blue bull, black buck, urial, Chinkara, hog deer, Bactrian camel, fellow deer, rhesus monkey, llama, wallaby, sambar deer, giraffe, markhor, Arabian oryx

Birds: Ostrich, black shoulder peafowl, blue peafowl, demoiselle crane, common crane, ring-necked pheasant, silver pheasant, golden pheasant, Lady Amherst pheasant, vulture, pelican, Russian buck, common duck, rosella red parrot, white cockatiel, budgerigar parrot, cockatoo parrot, blue and gold macaw, eclectus parrot, African black crane, scarlet macaw, peregrine falcon