Crocodile ZOO Protivín, Crocodile conservation zoo in Protivín, Czech Republic.

Crocodile ZOO Protivín occupies a stone barn that once served as the stables and coach house of the Schwarzenberg manor, on the north side of Masarykovo náměstí. Its terrariums hold over 100 crocodilians of 22 species, from alligators and caimans to gharials, alongside a zoological museum with more than 1,200 skeletal specimens.

Miroslav Procházka began breeding crocodiles in 1996 at his ecological farm in Chvalšiny with a pair of caimans, and from 2000 he assembled a complete species collection. In 2005 he started building the exhibition in Protivín's historic stone barn, formerly a hospital, horse stable and coach house of the Schwarzenberg estate. The zoo received its license in May 2008 and opened on 1 June 2008.

The zoo is run by the Tomistoma Foundation, named after the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), of which it keeps the largest breeding group outside the species' native range, in cooperation with Dvůr Králové nad Labem Zoo. Its educational programmes cover renewable energy and ecological farming, demonstrated with heat pumps and a small hydroelectric plant.

The zoo sits on the north side of Masarykovo náměstí, in a stone former horse stable and coach house of the Schwarzenberg estate; the chateau stands across the square. It is open daily all year, and the exhibition rooms occupy a historic building with several floors, so allow time for the terrariums and the osteological museum with over 1,200 specimens.

In May 2017, 17 Indian gavial hatchlings emerged here and 14 survived to one year, the first breeding of the species in Europe and the first worldwide in a temperate climate. Some young were later sent to zoos in Belgium, Switzerland and Gran Canaria.