Disclaimer: I'm not related with them in any form and there is a lot of time since my last visit, so I could be wrong.
Loro parque is known to host and reproduce a lot of endangered species of parrots and help it to recover from extinction with private money. As private zoo it has a very good reputation of taking lots of troubles to keep the animals as happy as they can.
They had an escape bat incident some years ago, solved, and there was the history of the killer whale Morgan with several animalist organisations figthing to avoid the park rescuing a deaf and starving dutch killer whale. It seems that some people would prefer the young lost whale dead than in captivity, for ideological reasons. Eventually Loro parque won all trials and collect all legal permits to keep an animal that would not survive a year in the ocean but is still alive and well and even has a calf in 2018. They even had to feed the calf with a bottle.
I'm not aware of anything really dark or wrong with them. Looks like a good modern zoo; In fact it is classified routinely as one of the bests zoos in Europe if I remember correctly.
Loro parque is known to host and reproduce a lot of endangered species of parrots and help it to recover from extinction with private money. As private zoo it has a very good reputation of taking lots of troubles to keep the animals as happy as they can.
They had an escape bat incident some years ago, solved, and there was the history of the killer whale Morgan with several animalist organisations figthing to avoid the park rescuing a deaf and starving dutch killer whale. It seems that some people would prefer the young lost whale dead than in captivity, for ideological reasons. Eventually Loro parque won all trials and collect all legal permits to keep an animal that would not survive a year in the ocean but is still alive and well and even has a calf in 2018. They even had to feed the calf with a bottle.
https://www.loroparque.com/morgan/
I'm not aware of anything really dark or wrong with them. Looks like a good modern zoo; In fact it is classified routinely as one of the bests zoos in Europe if I remember correctly.
What do you feel was wrong with them?