The Zoo and the Tierpark Berlin are indispensable partners in the GAIA Initiative and support our mission both financially as well as with close collaboration in research and development. GAIA scientists and zoo keepers tagged white-backed vultures in the Tierpark’s aviary with commercially available transmitters and gathered important insights into animal morphology and tag design as well as valuable training data for the artificial intelligence for behaviour recognition. At the Tierpark Berlin, a prototype of the novel GAIA animal tag took its premiere flight in September 2022.