Animals at troubled zoo go missing, die or suffer cold and disease, campaigners claim
by Jane Dalton
Apr 21, 2024
3 minutes
Animals went missing, died and suffered disease because of continued failings at a zoo once dubbed “the worst in the UK”, campaigners say.
An “emaciated” meerkat struggled to find enough food, bear cages were left uncleaned for too long and a baby kangaroo drowned at Cumbria Safari Zoo, it was claimed.
Other kangaroos were thought to have a disease and lemurs were injured because their “overcrowded” enclosures caused aggression, according to Freedom for Animals.
An activist for the animal-rights organisation who posed as a volunteer helper at the
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