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Changed "Owner" status (as the zoo is now a charity and not owned by anyone). Removed superfluous information about marriage counselling and church life which felt irrelevant to the history of the zoo. I appreciate that, as other editors have mentioned, without Bush there is no zoo, but there is so much information on this page which doesn't meet the remit of the zoo.
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'''Noah's Ark Zoo Farm''' is a {{Convert|100|acre|adj=on}} [[zoo]] developed on a working [[farm]] in [[Wraxall, Somerset|Wraxall]], [[North Somerset]], {{Convert|6|mi}} west of [[Bristol]], England.
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===Anthony Bush===
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm was conceived by Anthony Bush (b. 1938), the son of a [[Wiltshire]] farm manager. Bush attended [[Monkton Combe School]], served a stint as an officer in [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|National Service]] with the [[Somerset Light Infantry]], and attended [[Worcester College, Oxford]], for a year before deciding to return to farming. In 1960 he became a tenant of [[Richard Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall|Richard Gibbs, Lord Wraxall]], at Moat House Farm, near [[Bristol]], which Bush operated as a dairy farm. In 1962 he married Christina James, an art teacher, and they had four children.<ref>Anthony Bush, ''From Cows to Tigers: Building Noah's Ark'' (privately published, 2012), 11–62.</ref> In 1968 Bush was elected onto the Somerset County Executive Committee of the [[National Farmers Union of England and Wales|National Farmers Union]], and in 1980, he began a Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group to encourage farmers to conserve wildlife.<ref>Bush, 119, 123; "Farmer turned zookeeper is a man with a mission", ''Bristol Post'', 21 May 2012.</ref>
 
Bush and wife became active at [[St Philip and St Jacob, Bristol|St. Philip and St. Jacob Church]], helping to revive the church with a youth program. In 1967 Bush became a member of the Anglican [[Church Assembly]], and in 1974 he and his wife established the Bristol Family Life Association, which lobbied on behalf of marriage education and against the use of obscenities on television. Later, the Bushes established Marriage Repair, a counselling service.<ref>Bush, 83, 89–94, 107; [http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/ncropa/ncropa-val-10.pdf Viewer & Listener.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203214108/http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/ncropa/ncropa-val-10.pdf |date= 3 December 2013 }} In the early 1990s, Bush prepared for ordination as an Anglican priest, but his bishop, [[Jim Thompson (bishop)|Jim Thompson]], refused to ordain him, telling Bush he did not like his "theological certainly" (158).</ref> In 1982, Bush became director of Mission England, which organised a [[Billy Graham]] evangelistic campaign in 1985 at [[Ashton Gate Stadium]].<ref>Bush, 126–134. In 1996 Bush also chaired a four-day evangelistic campaign in the same stadium for the Argentinian-American evangelist [[Luis Palau]] (166–167).</ref> In 1987, Bush helped found the African relief agency, Send a Cow.<ref>Bush, 145–152; [http://www.sendacow.org.uk/assets/files/Publications/sac-annrev-0809-web.pdf Send a Cow website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094856/http://www.sendacow.org.uk/assets/files/Publications/sac-annrev-0809-web.pdf |date= 4 March 2016 }}.</ref>
 
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