{"id":5097,"date":"2023-09-01T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/?page_id=5097"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:34:41","slug":"uk-zoos-take-action","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/uk-zoos-take-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Uk Zoos: Take Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/UKZOOS1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Three meerkats stand behind each other, looking over each other's heads\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/UKZOOS1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/UKZOOS1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/UKZOOS1-40x40.jpg 40w, https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/UKZOOS1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/UKZOOS1-256x256.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/UKZOOS1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We are calling for the government to urgently review zoo legislation amid concerns that the current legal requirements of zoos relating to animal welfare, conservation and education are broad, non-specific and fail to ensure any intended meaningful benefit for wild animals in the wild or held in zoos. Such criteria, which all zoos should be required to meet, must be transparent, meaningful, measurable and in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of species held by UK zoos are not threatened with extinction, financial contributions to\u00a0in situ\u00a0conservation are a small fraction of what zoos are spending on new exhibits and the conservation measures required of zoos lack the criteria to ensure real conservation benefits.<\/p>\n<p>It is also clear that zoos were financially unprepared for long-term closure as experienced during COVID-19. The creation of a Zoo Insurance Bond is urgently needed to ensure the care and welfare of animals at a zoo which is forced to close, and, where closed permanently, their humane dispersal to other appropriate facilities during what could be a protracted winding-up period;<\/p>\n<p>Below you will find a number of actions you can take to help resolve the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are calling for the government to urgently review zoo legislation amid concerns that the current legal requirements of zoos relating to animal welfare, conservation and education are broad, non-specific and fail to ensure any intended meaningful benefit for wild animals in the wild or held in zoos. Such criteria, which all zoos should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5097","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37399,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5097\/revisions\/37399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}