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<p>Section 1A of the Zoo Licensing Act 1981 currently sets the conservation, research
and education requirements that licensed zoos in Great Britain must meet. The Government
is proposing, via the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill currently before Parliament,
to allow these standards instead to be set in the Secretary of State’s Standards of
Modern Zoo Practice (‘the Zoo Standards’). This will mean that they may be updated
more easily in future. The Zoo Standards are in the process of being updated by Defra,
in consultation with the UK’s Zoos Expert Committee, and will include new conservation,
research and education standards in preparation for the new legislation. Defra is
aiming to publish a draft of the new Zoo Standards, for a targeted consultation of
relevant zoo stakeholders, later this year.</p>
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