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revenue due to sudden and unexplained cancellation of tours, undertook major breaches of safety protocols and inappropriate behaviour in the workplace. In early
December 2008 Busch applied for an interim reinstatement to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA). The ERA declined his application in its determination of 9 December 2008.
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In August 2011, Busch attempted to have his mother
Patricia Busch adjudicated bankrupt over an alleged debt of $ 3800. Associate Judge Bell declined to hear the case on the day, and set a later hearing date set for October that year. In October, Busch then withdrew the bankruptcy proceedings, after
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reported Busch had been taken to court by
Whangarei-based lawyer Wayne Peters for unpaid legal fees amounting to a total of $ 86,351.47, relating to various legal services provided for a period of seven months during 2009. Peters had applied for summary judgement, after attempts to serve Busch with
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At the end of May 2009, serious allegations were made against Busch by Zion
Wildlife Gardens park staff. The allegations included the inhumane killing of unwanted cubs with rocks, beating of two lions with a short stick, and putting the lives of staff at risk by having them run with tigers. It was
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Whangarei District Court of assaulting his former partner Karen Greybrook in 2005. Greybrook sustained a cut to her head, a fractured vertebra and bruising. Greybrook died from unrelated complications during September 2011 in Australia, where she had resided for
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On 3 November 2008 Busch was dismissed from his role as
Operator of Zion Wildlife Gardens by the companies. There were allegations by his employers Zion Wildlife Gardens Limited that he failed to keep proper training records, could not follow correct cash handling procedures, had caused a loss of
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January 2006, Auckland builder Robert Reece alleged Busch owed him NZ$ 400,000. Reece had planned to take court action to recover the debt during the following month. Reece claimed he had financed the majority of the zoo facilities at Zion Wildlife Gardens. He also had claimed he had paid NZ$
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revealed Busch had not reported injuries to a young boy by a lion cub, during his tenure as operator of Zion
Wildlife Gardens. Former park workers also alleged that Busch had lost a finger after it had been bitten off by the white lion Gandor. Footage included in the programme also showed Busch
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aired an item concerning serious allegations made against Busch by Ed Hern of the Rhino & Lion Nature
Reserve, and Fred Berrange of the Leopard Conservation Project, both based in South Africa, of unpaid loans and stolen film footage. In the same news item, questions were also raised about
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Zealand's first natively born white tigers, Tane and Aotea (born January 2005), and later Kiwi and Rongo (born 2 October 2005), with a white lion cub named Gandor from the
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alleged that one of the staff members had been jumped upon by one of the tigers, and the animal had gone for the keeper's throat. The tiger had been forced off by another staff member. Busch denied the allegations.
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340:"Triple joy as white tiger Rewa earns her stripes"
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399:"Aucklander challenges Lionman"
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