Exhibition Animals

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Gibbon mother with infant Importation of Pets and Other Animal & Animal Products into the United States

CDC. Division of Global Migration & Quarantine.

Information on the importation of dogs, cats, turtles, monkeys and other animals and animal products capable of causing human disease.


Codes of Welfare

New Zealand National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee.

These Codes set out minimum standards and recommendations relating to all aspects of the care of animals in zoos, rodeos, and circuses. They provide further detail of the obligations laid out in the New Zealand Animal Welfare Act 1999.


Close-up of a male lion India: Animal Welfare Laws and Regulations

Government of India. Ministry of Environment and Forests.

Access to all current Indian Federal animal welfare legislation and rules.


United Kingdom: Zoo licensing Act 1981

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

This law requires the inspection and licensing of all zoos in Great Britain.


The Zoos Forum Handbook

UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

This handbook was developed for zoos and their stakeholders in the United Kingdom.