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The Animal Protecting Law of Finland (from 1996) was replaced by Animal Welfare Act in 2024, and this also affected the Finnish zoos. Before the law change, the zoos were basically required just to take good care of the animals and to educate people. This means that many small places keeping...

A lot of people and even organisations like born free, are trying to end the owning of DWAs. I’d love to know your views on this. Do you agree? Disagree? I’ve looked for other threads relating to this but didn’t find any so I made a new thread. Sorry if I’ve missed one.

Researchers have conducted a number of studies on the effect of 'pingers', small devices that act as acoustic alarms for small cetaceans. This means that they move away from the boat and avoid being trapped in the nets. It must be emphasised that this strategy is by no means perfect - according...

Hello my name is nicki I was curious if anyone knows where I can find all the regulations for enclosures and care of zoo animals. thanks for all your help :D

For some reason or another Norway is actually the only country in the world were it is bannned to have reptiles and amphibians as pets (although I think Iceland, New Zealand, an Hawai has a similar ban). It has been banned since 1975 (I think). The reason for that have not been specified from...