A MID Wales zoo looks likely to permanently close over an unpaid tax bill amounting to more than £100,000. A London court on Wednesday issued a winding up petition against Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, in Ceredigion, over unpaid debts of £60,567 dating back to July 2017. The zoo – home to a number of category one animals, including lions, lynx, wolfdogs, monkeys and pythons – also owes an extra £40,000 in “further amounts” as well as £22,000 to their local authority, Ceredigion County Council (CCC). The zoo’s owners, Dean and Tracy Tweedy, have been besieged by problems in recent years – including having to kill two lynx within days of each other in 2017. Eurasian lynx Lilleth was “humanely destroyed” after escaping from the zoo in October and wondering on to a nearby caravan site, while a second lynx, Nilly, died at the zoo a few days later following a “handling error”. The council then ordered that the zoo must have one member of a firearms team on duty