A previous organization called Zoologická zahrada Tábor-Větrovy was founded in July 2011, but was shut down amid financial problems in spring 2015. The zoo continued as Zoologická zahrada Tábor a. s. but as a new company, owned by Evžen Korec. The zoo reopened on 30 June 2015. The zoo had 25,000 visitors in the first month after it reopened, and more than 70,000 visitors in 2016. Korec later wrote a book about his take-over of Tábor Zoo, Jak jsem zachránil ZOO v Táboře, co-written with Filip Susanka and released in December 2016.
In 2016, the zoo began breeding European bison, as part of a Europe-wide effort to reintroduce the species to the wild. Between February and May 2016, a new pen was built with an area of about 0.5 hectares. The zoo decided to breed the genetically most valuable line, known as the Lowland line, which is considered more suitable for reintroduction. They acquired two cows from Nuremberg Zoo, and two one-year-old cows from Insel Usedom Wisentgehege, a private owner in Northern Germany. All four cows were transported to the zoo in May 2016. The breeding bull, Poczekaj, arrived at the zoo in November 2016 from Niepolomice, near Krakow in Poland. The breeding herd was carefully formed in cooperation with the Czech coordinators of European bison breeding, Dalibor Dostál and Miloslav Jirků from charity Česká krajina, the Biotechnological Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Polish EBSB coordinators. The zoo's main goal is to breed European bison calves and return them to the areas intended for the reintroduction of European bison.
Scientific research
Tábor Zoo hosts a scientific research group focused predominantly on the genetic study of three mammal species: Cane Corso dogs, European bison and American bison. The group has published several research articles, with results describing the inheritance of various traits in dogs, such as the inheritance of the canine hip dysplasia or the inheritance of coat colour in Cane Corso dogs. Their present research is focused on the genetic background of longevity in the three species, and they have described the relationship between coat colour and longevity in Cane Corso dogs and the median longevity of the two bison breeds. The latter results posit a significant difference in median longevity between males and females in both species, in favour of females.
