[2] The zoo opened in 1983 as a hummingbird centre and was called Fauna Flora Amazonica.

[4] In 1983 Rudolf Watshinger started a hummingbird breeding centre, and called it Fauna Flora Amazonica.

In 2002, it was bought by the communes Macouria and Montsinéry-Tonnegrande, and in 2007, the zoo closed.

[5] In 2014, an aviary with 40 parrots and other birds was built near the entrance, and named after Eugène Bellony who opened the first animal park of French Guiana in the 1930s.

[3] In 2013, the zoo was the second most visited attraction in French Guiana after the Salvation Islands.