Discovery News: Bees on the Brink Animal Shelters Are zoos good or bad for animals?

Visiting experts and directors have described it as the worst government-run zoo in Taiwan in consideration of terrible conditions their animals are kept in.

IDA publishes an annual list of the "10 worst zoos for elephants".

However, the zoo facilities were in need of repair and renovation, with the animals cramped concrete quarters so poor that the Humane Society called it "one of the worst zoos in America".

The animal enclosures were very small and uncomfortable, which led to Broxbourne Zoo being described as the worst zoo in Britain.

In 1993 he led the $37 million renovation of the Prospect Park Zoo, once branded one of the country's 10 worst zoos by Parade magazine.

To the worst zoo and the best zoological collection I've seen.

It was certainly the worst zoo in the history of time.

The Atlanta Zoo reached its period of sharpest decline in the mid-1980s; it was even named by Parade Magazine one of the "ten worst" zoos in the nation in 1984.

A plague upon bad zoos with bad enclosures!