Founded in 1969, the BPZS has provided support to the Zoo in various ways. Most recently, in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, the City of New Bedford lacked funds to make needed improvements to the Zoo and it appeared to many that the Zoo would have to be closed. The BPZS never... more

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