Colchester Zoo owner Dr Dominique Tropeano looks to the future on its 60th anniversary.
By Lauren Carter and Peter WalkerThe owner of Colchester Zoo has vowed to maintain the attraction as a conservation project and not as a "theme park".
"I want it to continue as a zoo. I don't want it to become a theme park; we want to continue the work we are doing now, this is work in conservation and work in education."Colchester Zoo opened in 1963 with a small collection of animals but now houses about 160 species An estimated 12,000 people visited on the first two days, and its first animals included a bactrian camel, a red kangaroo and a cheetah.
The team opened a 1.9 acre elephant enclosure in 1998 and a 24-metre long underwater viewing tunnel in the sea lion enclosure in 2003 - two of its largest ever building projects.after escaping through their steel wire fence and beyond the perimeter fence.
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