Luckily, zoos aren’t just for kids; as a grown-up, you can go whenever you want — no need to wait for a school trip. While zoos tend to be a hot topic of debate, many in the US are ethical and focus ...

Despite good intentions, zoos and other animal parks tend to have concerning impacts on the health and well-being of animals. Perhaps through increased regulations to boost animal welfare and ...

Good zoos do effective conservation work and continually strive to improve exhibits, relevance to conservation, and inspiring public engagement for wildlife.

Unfortunately, Feldman says that bad zoos are far more common than good zoos. Unethical zoos keep animals in small enclosures with no forms of enrichment. ©Mircea Moira/Shutterstock.com.

The Good Zoo at Oglebay is only the fourth zoo to secure the grant throughout the past 20 years. Other various recipients were the Phoenix Zoo and Bronx Zoo.

But these days a good zoo isn’t just a menagerie; it’s also a conservation powerhouse. Here’s Ashleigh to tell us more. [CLIP: Birds chattering and children playing at a zoo] ...