Animal health and welfare

England Implementation Plan: Zoos

The Animal Health and Welfare Strategy (AHWS) for Great Britain says comparatively little on zoo animals.

The Zoos Forum is an independent body advising Government on zoo licensing matters.  It represent zoo interests on the EIG’s AWDS Subgroup overseeing delivery of the Animal Welfare Delivery Strategy (AWDS) for England Adobe acrobat pdf file (168 KB), a Defra-led strategy making sense of what the AHWS means for welfare.

 

 

Page last modified: 1 April, 2008

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs