Campaigners calling for a rethink on the closure of Bristol Zoo are to hold another protest and march next week, as a crucial date in their battle looms nearer.
The ‘Save Bristol Zoo Gardens’ campaigners are planning to march from the Victoria Rooms at Clifton Triangle, up through Clifton to the zoo site on the morning of Sunday, March 12. Hundreds attended a public meeting last month in a church near the zoo in Clifton last month, and organisers of the campaign are hoping hundreds more will join the march next weekend.
The march is to take place just a couple of days before a crucial council meeting, which is due to discuss the plans to redevelop the zoo site, and could scupper any hope of saving the zoo itself. Bristol Zoo closed its doors to the public on September 1 last year, after announcing a major plan to concentrate its work at the Wild Place site on the edge of Bristol.
