Zoos may be required to provide records of how many animals have died while in their care

Zoos may be required to provide inspectors with copies of inventories showing how many animals died in their care from next year, following a move by Tayto Park that kept the information out of the public domain.

The theme park in Co Meath discontinued the practice of furnishing zoo inspectors with records containing details of animal deaths last year on foot of an “internal review”.