Lake District Wildlife Park, in Bassenthwaite, England. As much as I love the place I do have some issues with it:
- Because the focus of their collection is ungulates and rare breed livestock, most of the larger enclosures are just basic grass paddocks with not a huge amount going on in terms of scenery or animal enrichment. This makes up most of the zoo site, and a lot of it is very plain and uninteresting to look at.
- They used to have a very impressive reptile house, but today the on-show reptile collection has shrunk to two lizards, three snakes and some box turtles, displayed in a single corridor with the walls painted an ugly bright green. They do have more species, but a lot of them are kept off-show and only brought out for a daily keeper talk that's done very late on the day.
- I personally don't like it when birds of prey are tied up to a little perch out in the open with little to know weather protection, which this zoo does with many of their hawks and eagles. I'd prefer if they were all kept in their own aviaries, some of the birds are such as the owls and Vultures, but others aren't.
