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This report analyses the closure of Bristol Zoo Gardens as well as the projections upon which Bristol Zoological Society’s current one-site strategy is based. It finds almost all the projections to be unprecedented and therefore, highly questionable. It argues that Bristol Zoological Society’s decision in 2020 to sell Bristol Zoo Gardens in Clifton and invest all the capital raised in its visitor attraction in South Gloucestershire was not made with all the relevant information. Consequently, this led to a less than satisfactory decision-making process which now calls into question whether the original decision to close Bristol Zoo Gardens needs to be revisited by Bristol Zoological Society’s Shareholders and Trustees. Over three years since the closure of Bristol Zoo Gardens, this assertion is further bolstered by Bristol Zoological Society’s self-declared “financial crisis.”