Visitors had sustained monkey bites. The hippos had such dry skin it was cracking, but David Gill said that was natural in the wild. In March, the council that had granted Gill his licence every six years since 1994 turned down his application, with government inspectors citing “overcrowding, poor hygiene, poor nutrition, lack of suitable animal husbandry and any sort of developed veterinary care”. Gill’s lawyer said his client no longer wanted to run the facility, but did not want it to close before a new company had a licence approved. South Lakes Safari Zoo in Dalton-in-Furness opened in 1994 and now houses more than 1,500 animals, including tigers, giraffes and rare birds. Gill says her role was administrative and did not involve “veterinary procedures on any live animal”. And she said that "any animal death affects me the most" of anyone at the zoo. It turned out she was pregnant. Gill’s zoo faced problems as early as 1997, when Zimba, a rare three-tonne white rhino, escaped from its enclosure into a car park, fell into a ditch and was shot dead. “It’s a very unfair thing to say when I’ve had so much success. He came to the zoo with extensive animal training and more than 10 years’ experience in animal welfare: “It takes a lot – a lot – to shock me,” he says. It’s more than likely not a single person will be prosecuted. She had been airlifted to Preston hospital. Staff at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm near Bristol said … 9 After they split, he had two children with another zoo keeper. Now, amidst the footfall famine of the pandemic – and an uncertain post-lockdown future – it’s the zoo that needs saving. Here at Avilon Zoo, in the Philippines, an orangutan dressed in human clothes is used as a photo prop for tourists. On the zoo’s website, you can gift money towards the Sumatran Tiger Trust, also owned by Gill. 1 / 1. In 2008, his affair with a married woman ended when her jealous husband was jailed for stabbing Gill in the neck. “There’s no one more passionate about the welfare of these animals,” Brewer tells me by way of introduction. But they were amazing. I read aloud from the report about Miskin and Natasja, the snow leopard cubs who were discovered partly eaten. When the zoo’s licence came up for renewal last summer, government inspectors revealed that 486 animals had died between December 2013 and September 2016, many of them in cruel circumstances. Rosa King, who was 33, was savaged by a Malayan male called Cicip at Hamerton Zoo Park in Cambridgeshire. His father was a local magistrate, his mother a confectioner. ‘It became very evident very quickly that things weren’t right,’ a former keeper says of the zoo, pictured in March. They’re moving away, out of the county, to a new life and new jobs. Potter disputes this. Another former member of staff wants to talk, as long as she can remain anonymous. UK zoo to shut down after 500 animal deaths The zoo’s application for a licence was denied by Barrow Borough Council. Pablo was stitched up a bit and put in a separate area, but they just left him there for days. Borth Wild Animal Kingdom says it may have to euthanise animals because funds are running out, People take pictures of a new street artwork entitled 'Aachoo!!' I left because if you work there, you’re the one killing them.”. I also want to know why council inspectors have had such a radical change of heart about Brewer. “The word emaciation means lack of muscle on the skeletal features. On 23 March, Potter, who had worked at the zoo for two years, marched into Barrow town hall and delivered a three-page typed statement detailing all the malpractices he says he witnessed, nearly all of which have taken place since Brewer took charge in January: “If anything, it’s worse now.”, Potter started out as a volunteer a couple of days a week, helping clean paths and other odd jobs. Photograph Courtesy World Animal Protection. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Brewer worked for Gill for 15 years, starting off as an admin assistant and rising to become zoo manager, zoo educator, zoo and office manager and finally CEO. “There’s nobody that knows these animals better than these guys.”. In an update today, the zoo said the woman’s death “is extremely tragic and Zurich Zoo is deeply affected. Gill was fined £10,000 by Kendal magistrates court for endangering the public and failing to have adequate barriers. Can a new team turn South Lakes Safari around? A baby orangutan may have died from coronavirus at a German zoo, PETA has claimed - prompting an angry denial from zookeepers.. Leipzig Zoo announced the death of … The zoo trade body says the tiger deaths were unrelated to licensing. When an animal died, “there was no real procedure.” Without a British vet’s licence, Schreiber is not supposed to carry out surgery, but this year’s inspections discovered she had carried out 150 postmortems. The former keeper says he never saw evidence of vaccination or worming treatments. They paid off every single person every single penny they owed.” Did he sell it for millions? A SIBERIAN tiger “grabbed a female keeper by the neck” and killed her in front of shocked visitors, including a child, say eyewitnesses. I repeatedly asked why they weren’t putting him somewhere safe. Captive Animals' Protection Society. They organised themselves into a base of volunteers [to keep the zoo open]. “I never witnessed or was told of any genetic deformation in any species.”, Gill claims he had no idea what management, vets and other staff were doing at his own zoo. 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Zurich Zoo staff rushed to the 55-year-old’… A tiger that mauled a zookeeper to death could have killed children and families as the enclosure gates she opened were not shut until her body was found 80 minutes later, a report has found. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? It’s 2pm at South Lakes Safari zoo. She now campaigns for changes in zoo legislation. Just six days before Harambe was killed, a … The food was inadequate. Zoos in the UK hold tens of thousands of animals captive. Last modified on Fri 1 Dec 2017 14.53 GMT. A Sumatran tiger, which got … South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria, north west England, has been found responsible for the deaths of 486 animals in its care, some of which perished from avoidable causes, including emaciation and … The tribunal ruled in her favour and awarded her £30,000 in compensation. Skip to next photo. Published 22 May 2020, 20:23 BST, Updated 26 Nov 2020, 12:16 GMT. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? By 2014, the zoo was bringing in 250,000 visitors a year and generating £3m. He adds that “all postmortems were authorised by the zoo vets, then checked by the vets and signed off”. By Simon Ingram. Are zoos bad for animals? I call the council again: maybe they can tell me what happened over Christmas 2015, when three squirrel monkeys were stolen from the zoo – in April 2016 the zoo told the council this was “more than likely perpetrated by an ex-employee”. In 2001, a former employee, Lara Kitson, sued for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination. It was…”, Brewer cuts in: “At that point in time, we obviously got our meat supplied from a number of sources. The zoo dubbed the 'UK's worst' will be be allowed to reopen after agreeing to give up its big cats following the death of two lynx. In 2008, a fire killed 30 lemurs. They helped provide food; farmers would provide meat. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Memphis Zoo Mourns Death of 'Exceptionally Handsome' Red Panda: This 'Is a Significant Loss' this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. She employed everybody, oversaw standards, management, marketing. The new chief executive, Karen Brewer, had also served as chief executive under Gill. Share. Gill told the North-West Evening Mail the three charges were “technical” in nature and related only to not reporting events rather than the events themselves. “Many of the animals are rescued from the animal trade or are exotic pets that the owner cannot look after any more.". “I think what this company is extremely keen to do is to look to the future,” Brewer says. A separate report by the Born Free foundation points to widespread regulatory failure, with only a quarter of zoos maintaining animal welfare standards. The former employee remembers seeing Schreiber carrying out a postmortem on an antelope in the meat prep area. Despite the attacks, Binky became a minor celebrity, his face adorning zoo merchandise. It’s a cyclone region: the fences didn’t hold up to that.”, So how, despite so many failures and warnings, did South Lakes zoo stay open? Once open, all zoos are inspected annually by inspectors appointed by the local authority. Intern's family say she 'died following her passion' I tried to explain tortoises need very high temperatures and UV. “It was really shocking to the community,” she says. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. What happened when an animal died, I ask. South Lakes was debated in parliament, with Andrew Rosindell, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on zoos, calling on the government to launch an inquiry. Death of Margaash. 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The white gibbons would be living on a diet of 50% seed, not 70 to 80% fruit and vegetables – that’s what it said they were getting on the signs outside the enclosure. “I have on many occasions had to buy food myself – this can be verified at Tesco on Rawlinson Street, who have actually saved reduced price fruit and veg for me – just to include fresh food in the diets.”. A keeper mauled to death by a tiger at a zoo was discovered by a visitor in the public viewing area who raised the alarm, an inquest has heard. Staff with no training, no clue’: a kangaroo at the zoo in 2016. You go and ask Richard Branson if he knows everything that’s going on on a Virgin train.” What about the claims that unsuitable food was fed to animals? The Zoological Society of London is incorporated by Royal Charter - Registered Charity in England and Wales no. Three animals were run over by a miniature railway, some were put down due to lack of space and a worker was killed by a tiger. It took three years for the truth to come out at inquest: Sarah was in a staff corridor next to the tiger enclosure when the tiger attacked and mauled her – a bolt on a gate was defective. I went to management and pushed as much as I could. Zoo founder David Gill. I can’t remember what I sold it for.”, When I ask about the high number of animal deaths, he says, “It is a ridiculous thing to call it a scandal. 208728. McClay has a picture of Sarah on the swings at the zoo as a child; South Lakes was the job of her dreams. This time, I’m put on hold for just over three minutes. Only a month and a half later, the bear mauled another tourist, a drunk teenager whose leg was torn up. I wasn’t even at the zoo for all these inspections. An independent review of the zoo licensing system is long overdue.”. So they took a picture like that. Initially, McClay was told that Sarah, who worked as a carer for the big cats, had been killed by a tiger because she hadn’t followed protocol and had walked into the enclosure. Colchester Zoo has said a heartbreaking farewell to its “sensitive and sweet” chimpanzee Tekita, who has tragically died at the age of 24. Artificial environments. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Shot to death by Delavane Head shot Eats, Shoots And Leaves: Agent Ben. 10 November . The car park was almost full last weekend. The only watchdogs are these two charities, whose findings are all too easily written off as “anti-zoo”. London Zoo lion inbreeding causing 'high levels of cub deaths', finds report. “There was no committee or board, so the management had complete power and control. London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. I trudge up the long, circular path, past sodden vultures hunched behind coiled barbed wire, pacing big cats and many upbeat, brightly coloured signs telling me the names all the animals have been given. By AFP Monday 6 Mar 2017, 5:27 PM. Horrified members of the public in the UK and US set up petitions to close the zoo. Two of the employees who had been at fault at the zoo had retired, and the third was reassigned. “In 2015, I gave up animal management altogether, so I could concentrate on the business side of things and the building of the new part of the zoo,” he claims. “How can all of this happen and he still have a licence?” asks Wendy Husband, whose zoo consultancy was asked to clear up the mess in Australia. Chester zoo, Edinburgh zoo: they have higher death rates than we had.” But Chester zoo keeps many more animals than South Lakes; 20,827 animals at the last head count. Chief executive Karen Brewer, who says of her team: ‘there’s no one more passionate about the welfare of these animals.’. On the question of animal food, she said, “Since January, we no longer depend on donated food from supermarkets” and that since mid-2016 they no longer use food from the zoo restaurant. The baboons were being fed Danish pastries and other cakes, and all the bread left behind in the rhino enclosure. Going on the record was a huge risk – South Lakes staff are contractually banned from even taking photographs on site – but Potter is in a chipper mood, relieved at finally having talked. In 2012, after the zoo recorded its busiest year ever (60,000 visitors in a month), Gill received planning permission to expand. Harambe the Gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, May 2016. “Even in the wild that would happen,” Walker says. It’s a completely normal death rate in zoos. Every day, we’d get fresh fruit delivered, avocados.”, Many of her observations echo the inspectors’ reports on South Lakes. When I ask whether any of the staff expressed concerns to Gill about how he was running the zoo, Brewer says, “That’s a question I don’t want asked, because that’s between me and David.” Who was in charge when he was away? South Lakes Safari Zoo loses licence after almost 500 animal deaths. 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The zoo, already struggling after a “long, quiet winter season”, said the issue was compounded when it emerged a special government zoo fund only applies to businesses in England. 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She has never held a British veterinary licence and her Peruvian vet’s licence was declared void in her home country. It looked like a new dawn for the animals of South Lakes zoo, but for months I had been investigating disconcerting rumours about the new management. Gill, concluded the inspectors, was “not a fit and suitable person” to run a zoo. More likely, though, it’s the unsettling reports that have been appearing since last June. Brewer told the council there have been 150,000 people through the gates since January. Western-lowland gorillas are critically endangered and now there’s one less of them with the death of Harambe after a 4-year-old boy fell into his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. When I threw out some rotting ham and eggs, another member of staff rummaged through the bins and reported me for wasting food.”, Three tortoises died during his short tenure, including Goliath, the one who was electrocuted. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. It was allowed to open again in February. In Britain, he landed back on his feet. An eight-month-old baby zebra died after being startled by fireworks ahead of the UK's annual Bonfire Night celebrations, a zoo in Bristol, England has said. Virginia McKenna, Born Free’s founder and one of the world’s most respected conservationists, says that the troubles at South Lakes shine a light on “what is wrong with zoos and the laws governing them in the UK today. A bear mauled a zoo worker to death in front of a packed tourist bus at a brown bear exhibit at the Shanghai Wildlife Park. A young zebra in a zoo died after apparently becoming spooked by fireworks ahead of bonfire night. It seems he was given free rein.”, Husband describes what happened after Gill abandoned Mareeba. It is heartbreaking to have to share the devastating news that our male snow leopard Margaash died after getting out of his enclosure. ), Before Potter’s signed statement, the council claimed they’d received no formal complaints about the zoo since 2016 – not one person had come forward. “We told quite a few people, but people just believe his [Gill’s] crap,” she says. He died of septicaemia.”, Witnessing all this, he says, “makes you feel responsible, so you feel part of the crime, and because of that people shut down. Show caption 1 / 1. The third time, the operator tells me, “We’ve been instructed not to put through anyone calling about South Lakes.”. “You assume when your daughter goes to work at a zoo, she’ll be protected,” McClay says. According to CNN, animal advocacy group Born Free reports that there have been 256 injuries in zoos due to animal attacks over the past 26 years, resulting in 33 deaths. I want to know who’s bankrolling Cumbria Zoo Company Ltd. Animals on the loose Fri, June 3, 2016 “No, that’s the job of the animal manager. In 2010, a capuchin monkey escaped for five days and was recaptured in a church; two months later, the council renewed Gill’s six-year zoo licence. Shaffer. The zoo had already been in the headlines because, on 24 May 2013, a 23-year-old zookeeper, Sarah McClay, was mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger; the following year, the zoo … So you share responsibility for what happened? By Chris Yandell dailyecho_chris New Forest Chief Reporter. The zoo’s miniature train is not in operation today, due to a lack of passengers. Inspectors have a vested interest as they are connected to other zoos.”. "In the single global zoo, we are working together to ensure the continuation of the species. Death becomes the norm.” Does he have faith in the new company? Four days after Mareeba zoo was debated in the Australian parliament, an article in the Westmorland Gazette celebrated Gill’s plans for “a massive expansion” of South Lakes Wild Animal Park, including going “into great apes, gorillas and orangutans”. She was in charge of everything, including animal welfare. The zoo, which houses more than 300 animals, has previously faced calls to close after it emerged a lynx was accidentally strangled in “a terrible handling error” just days before a second lynx was shot and killed following an escape. About sharing. “It’s survival of the fittest, isn’t it?” adds deputy head keeper Kathy Black. The inspections would only last for two hours anyway.”, The experience has thrown her confidence in working with animals. The animal deaths at the zoo are still continuing under the new management, including the adult male babirusa, a mongoose, leopard tortoise, scarlet ibis, rhea and an emaciated penguin.” Food shortages are rife: “I have been made [by] Ms Brewer to feed the animals mouldy bread in the past, and have been reprimanded for throwing it away, I was regularly having to ‘beg’ for scraps from the [zoo] restaurant kitchen just to give the animals some fresh food.”, Potter says he was also forced to supplement the food supply from local supermarkets. 486 animals had died between December 2013 and September 2016, a more detailed inventory of animal deaths, voted to grant the company a four-year licence, The tribunal ruled in her favour and awarded her £30,000 in compensation, the case reached the Australian parliament, celebrated Gill’s plans for “a massive expansion” of South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Gill received planning permission to expand, Gill told the press she had made an unwise and baffling mistake, research by the Captive Animals’ Protection Society charity, only a quarter of zoos maintaining animal welfare standards. Many are suffering in silence, their misery unseen despite the thousands of people who peer in at them everyday. … A few days later, I try again: my 11th call. Tina, an elephant kept in Belfast Zoo for 50 years,was one such elephant. Former MP and now Labour parliamentary candidate for Barrow and Furness John Woodcock thinks the decision to give Brewer and her team a licence “is totally wrong. Lemurs would access the tiger enclosure and get killed. She says: “It’s not something we even want to get involved with because you start pointing fingers and at the end of the day we’re not about that.”, How many animals have died since 12 January? Gill was often travelling, so Brewer would sit in for him at inspections or council meetings. Three years after opening the zoo, Gill left his wife and two children for a 16-year-old zoo keeper whom he later married. A jaguar named Saka had chewed off its own paw after damaging it on broken glass and exposed nails. Azizi's death was "unexpected and unpreventable," the zoo reported By Georgia Slater October 29, 2020 11:22 AM David Gill, who currently holds the license for South Lakes Safari, handed over management to the Cumbria Zoo … Because the zoo has no drainage system, the stuff was shovelled into a wheelbarrow and poured somewhere the inspectors wouldn’t see. Poison used to treat rat infestations had led to the death of two (unspecified) zoo animals. The sisters drove as fast as they could, but by the time they reached her, Sarah had died. He was also being treated for foot and nail lesions prior to his death. Although UK zoos generally tend not to take elephants directly from the wild anymore, those elephants who had a taste of freedom in the wild are still in captivity in the UK today. Staff with no training, no clue. Barrow Council is … Zoos which exploit animals can never be ethical. (The RSPCA say they cannot comment due to data protection.) Last summer inspectors revealed that nearly 500 animals had died in a three-year period. Since that day, the only meat we take in is shop meat.”. The inquiry MP Andrew Rosindell called for has never materialised. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. But by that time he’d left the country. Zoo farm makes a stand after zebra death bristolpost.co.uk - Heather Pickstock. Critically endangered species are among more than 100 animals that have died at Dublin Zoo in just two years.. It was thought that there was some issue with the meat the cubs had eaten. In August 2006, an escaped South American goat was captured using a tranquilliser dart after it wandered into a garden. Why is it so hard to regulate zoos? Chester Zoo: Animal rights campaigners fury after five elephants dead in six years A ZOO has been left reeling by the deaths of two young elephants hit by a devastating disease. Between 2014 and 2016 109 animals died at the zoo in the Irish capital - … She heard nothing from Gill when her daughter died, she says. A shockingly depraved zoo near the Lake District, where almost 500 animals and one keeper have died under suspect circumstances in under four years, has been granted a … I am utterly disgusted. Only two months before awarding her a licence, they had declared themselves “unconvinced that this transfer of power was enough to change conditions. She studied conservation science at university and had been working at the zoo for two years when she died. Marwell Zoo said "much loved" 11-year-old Milla stopped breathing while under general anaesthetic to fit a new contraceptive implant and have a full health check. The zoo, in Ceredigion, was ordered to close in January due to a lack of trained marksmen in case of an animal escape. Gill’s former staff have disowned him and, with the council’s blessing, reinvented themselves as the new management. 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