Many people say that the enclosure is bad because it has not shade, but I see there are young trees around, so in a few years elephants will have a shadow.
@Elephantelephant Those trees are just outside the exhibit, so they will provide some shade eventually, but that will only be years, if not decades from now.
Another thing that bothers me about this exhibit is that it is so barren and that is so little in there to enrich elephants.
Personally I like the exhibit at Planckendael a lot more than this one.
@Elephantelephant remember that this exhibit is already a couple of years old now. Seen as those trees are not inside the exhibit, count a few decades before they will give enough shadow (if they will ever do). For a zoo with that much money, it can't be that hard to put up some man-made shades temporary until there is more shadow from trees.
