La Garenne Zoo feeds wolves, lynx, foxes, reptiles, tortoises, but also batrachians and fishes, from wood ants to European scorpions in Le Vaud (800 m) above Nyon. The zoo owes its existence to Erwin Maier, a fauna fan who inaugurated it in 1965.

As a contribution to preserving raptors, the zoo breeds some twenty raptor species, such as the bearded vulture, the only bone-eating vulture in the world that disappeared in the Alps in the 19th century. The young vultures, which were born at Garenne, have been set free according to the national reinsertion programme.

The pedagogic centre in the zoo proposes various thematic visits about predators, the food chain, raptors, migratory birds, reptiles and bats.

Open all year round.

Playground and self-service restaurant on site.