TeaLovingDave's Very Tongue In Cheek 2016 Predictions...

Distance-wise it isn't actually too bad from the nearest public transport - certainly I have walked significantly longer distances to reach collections such as Hamerton - but the problem is that walking there would require walking along a dual carriageway with no footpaths!

 

Indeed; and moreover the only Brown Bear in the UK which is *not* the nominate subspecies.

 

MARWELL ZOO will start announcing new arrivals at a slightly higher rate than in recent years, the worst of the cutbacks having now been made.

MONKEY WORLD will receive the final Douc Langur from Koln, permitting the latter collection to make better use of the housing for said taxon.

NATIONAL SEAL SANCTUARY GWEEK will receive a single Baltic Seal from Oceanopolis Brest, but cease to keep Patagonian Sealion.

NEW FOREST WILDLIFE PARK will receive an import of new blood for the Asian Short-clawed Otter population within Europe and start a studbook programme for the species, ordering every collection within Europe to cease breeding the inbred population already present.

NEWQUAY ZOO will receive further Owston's Civet individuals from Vietnam, with some individuals already held at the collection sent to other European collections and breeding centres in Vietnam. The remaining female Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth will be joined by a young male from Sweden towards the end of the year, with the hope of forming a second breeding pair within Europe.

NOAH'S ARK ZOO FARM will receive African Elephants from Blair Drummond, and continue to gradually improve and consolidate the collection as a whole.

OWL AND MONKEY HAVEN will receive the final Crowned Guenon and Lowe's Monkey from Twycross.

PAIGNTON ZOO will mourn the dual loss of their elderly Short-beaked Echidna and African Elephant during the winter months at the start of the year; however the former taxon will be replaced by a pair of New Guinea Shortbeaked Echidna, and - subsequent to a period of closure whilst the house and paddock is substantially altered - towards the end of the year an exciting new development will be announced for the old Elephant House.

PARADISE PARK HAYLE will receive a pair of Lears Macaws from a collection which does not hold the taxon, after the St Vincent Amazon finally passes away, along with Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise from Walsrode.

PARADISE WILDLIFE PARK, having found the spectacle of white lions and tigers is no longer bringing in the crowds, will announce they are starting a breeding programme for the "rare and endangered" white Jaguar.

PEAK WILDLIFE PARK, having laughed off any suggestions from the wider zoo community that the site was vulnerable to harsh weather conditions, will be forced to close for several months to repair damage sustained over the harsh winter at the start of the year. Towards the end of the year, it will quietly be announced that the collection is to close.

PORT LYMPNE WILD ANIMAL PARK will announce that due to rising costs, the African Experience safari will no longer be included in the entry fee, and will only be accessible to those who pay an additional fee. All the Moloch Gibbons at the collection will be returned to the wild.

RARE SPECIES CONSERVATION CENTRE will still be closed

REASEHEATH ZOO will receive a pair of Rusty-spotted Cat from a private collection, along with Rufous Lemur from Lakeland Wildlife Oasis.

 

Reading the thread will help with your desires

 

More a sign that there's an imminent court case involving Gill, so we've been keeping an extra-tight rein on that side of things to prevent any legal trouble for the site the court case is not due to occur until June 2016 now, but it was originally due for August 2015 and kept being rescheduled, so we've been playing it safe since the summer.

 

SCOTTISH DEER CENTRE will receive two male Philippine Spotted Deer from Edinburgh towards the start of the year, with further surplus males from other European collections arriving later in the year.

SCOTTISH OWL CENTRE will rebrand as the Scottish Owl and Passerine Centre, having unveiled a new exhibit for a handful of finches. Zoonerds will rejoice.

SCREECH OWL SANCTUARY will actually receive some Screech Owls.

SEWERBY ZOO will close forever due to visitor numbers hitting single figures, having discovered that Parrotsandrew has taken so many photographs of every possible detail of the collection that anyone wanting to visit just looks at the Zoochat gallery.

SHALDON WILDLIFE TRUST will replace their Yucatan Margay with Central American Margay after Tierpark Berlin puts the latter on the surplus list, also bringing in Panay Cloud Rat around the same time.

SHEPRETH WILDLIFE PARK will suffer badly over the winter, with several elderly animals passing away; however, this permits a much-needed redevelopment of the collection and a greater focus on the display of native fauna.

SHORELANDS WILDLIFE GARDENS will continue to pick up unusual small mammals and avifauna, with arrivals including Kagu, European Mink, Goliath Heron and Spot-billed Pelican.

SLIMBRIDGE WWT will mourn the loss of their final James' Flamingo over the course of the harsh winter opening the year, but will receive the breeding group present at Zoo Berlin after the collection decides to go out of the taxon.

SOUTH LAKES WILD ANIMAL PARK will end the year having turned things around, cut out a lot of dead wood and started making significant improvements after coming under new management and ownership, subsequent to David Gill being banned from involvement in a zoological collection.

THE CAT SURVIVAL TRUST will pick up a few interesting odds and ends; many of which will be mixed with the wrong subspecies or entirely misidentified because the owner knows better than experienced keepers and studbook holders.

THE DEEP will announce their latest development; an exhibit for the native sea ducks of the North Atlantic - species displayed will include King Eider, European Eider, Common Scoter, Red-breasted Merganser and Long-tailed Duck.

THE WILD PLACE will continue to expand and develop, with the major new development being an enclosure for Kordofan Giraffe, with a smaller development for Fossa and the arrival of Red Natal Duiker.

THRIGBY HALL WILDLIFE GARDENS will receive a pair of Jungle Cat to replace the deceased Chinese Golden Cat.

TRENTHAM MONKEY FOREST will rebrand as Trentham Bongo Forest after bongorob gets inadvertently locked in at closing time and is not permitted to leave - their new tagline will be "Count Our Bongo".

TROPICAL WORLD LEEDS will receive a pair of Grey-handed Night Monkey after their geriatric Bolivian Night Monkey pair both pass away. Other arrivals will include Round-eared Sengi and Great Blue Turaco.

TWYCROSS ZOO will go out of Crowned Monkey and Lowe's Guenon, with the comprehensive redevelopment of their house next on the schedule after the completion of the new Gibbon complex; the latter will - contrary to naysayers who claim zoo is trying to expunge all memory of those who founded the collection - contain a plaque dedicating the building to Badham and Evans.