Zoologic park de Lille, Municipal zoologic park in Lille, France

The Parc zoologique de Lille covers 3.5 hectares at the foot of the citadel in the Vauban-Esquermes district. It is divided into six themed zones, including "Autour du monde", "Terres d'Afrique" and "Sous les tropiques", the last a 750 m² walk-through aviary 10 metres high. In 2025 it housed more than 350 animals of 77 species.

Opened in 1950 as one section of a children's leisure park, it first held farm animals plus wild boar, fallow deer and red deer, and from 1953 rows of aviaries. The city of Lille took over its management in the early 1960s, when it grew to one hectare and received its first monkeys; a tropical house followed in 1962. Marcel Dhénin became director in 1981 and made animal welfare the priority, and the park reached its present 3.5 hectares in the 1980s.

Locals call it the Bois de Boulogne zoo, after the wood at the foot of the citadel where it stands. Its six themed zones carry names such as "Autour du monde", "Terres d'Afrique" and "Sous les tropiques", the last a 750 m² walk-through aviary 10 m high. Entry was free until 2016, and residents of Lille, Lomme and Hellemmes still enter without charge.

The entrance is at the foot of the citadel in the Vauban-Esquermes district, where two green metal gateposts and a low building with a "ZOO" sign frame the paved path into the park. The site covers 3.5 hectares, so allow time to walk the six themed zones, including the 750 m², 10 m-high tropical aviary. Lille residents and those from Lomme and Hellemmes still enter free; others pay since 2017.

The zoo keeps the studbooks for several species, including the binturong, the white-handed gibbon, the kinkajou, the ring-tailed lemur and the siamang. In 2005 the zoo also appeared on film: the main character of "Entre ses mains" is a veterinarian working at the Lille zoo.