London’s Zoo is open!

Eager visitors who secured one of the limited sold-out tickets to today’s reopening formed a socially-distanced queue to enter the iconic 36-acre park, before safely following one of three carefully mapped out nature routes laid out across the site - blooming in the spring sunshine.

Earlier in the morning, keepers celebrated by placing a ‘We Are Open’ banner on Penguin Beach just before the gates opened – to ensure the zoo’s lively colony of Humboldt penguins didn’t miss out on the reopening excitement.