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| | Basildon Zoo disgrace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07) |
 | | This year, in November 2001, the zoo license, permitting Basildon Zoo to exhibit animals to the public is up for renewal. |
 | | Over the last 13 years, the Born Free Foundation, the former Director of the National Federation of Zoos, the RSPCA, Basildon Council’s consultant veterinary surgeon and visiting members of the public, have questioned the standards of animal husbandry and the general conditions at Basildon Zoo. |
 | | In 1988, the RSPCA stated that the cramped, dilapidated and unhygienic conditions at Basildon Zoo made Basildon the “worst zoo in Britain”. |
| www.bornfree.org.uk /zoocheck/zoonews003.htm (529 words) |
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