Nearly 2,500 ‘dangerous wild animals’ are being kept in private collections in England

Number of dangerous wild animals registered with local authority

200

West Oxfordshire is home to lions, tigers, leopards and wolves

325

Buckinghamshire

140

Chichester

124

Mozambique spitting cobra among the 48 snake species registered in Dover

165

Cornwall is home to 14 different species of privately-owned exotic feline

325

Buckinghamshire has the largest

number of dangerous wild animals

registered in England

107

Melton is home

to 104 bison

80

High Peak

84

East Suffolk

84

Shropshire

200

West Oxfordshire is home to lions, tigers, leopards and wolves. Many registered dangerous wild animals are housed at Heythrop Zoological Gardens

165

Cornwall is home

to 14 different species

of privately-owned

exotic feline

124

Mozambique spitting

cobra among the

48 snake species

registered in Dover

 

133

New Forest

140

Chichester