Steven Connell

Review of Beijing Zoo

This zoo is large. Panda enclosures are decent and...

This zoo is large. Panda enclosures are decent and Pandas are well looked after. However the rest is just awful: Animals in small spaces looking distressed, Giraffe losing some fur, lots of empty enclosures, lack of disabled access inside aquarium area (missed a floor out because of this). Some areas are that empty they have turned it into park land.

I have been twice, last time was 10 years ago and it was much better then. Now it looks underfunded and animals besides Pandas are suffering due to this.