A zoo for Ottawa

[TZFan]

I found a cool article about various plans for a zoo to be built in Ottawa. I never really thought about it before but it does seem weird we have a national capital without a zoo. I could see an impressive zoo built in the Ottawa area with an impressive focus on showing of Canadian wildlife. Maybe that zoo doesn't have lions and tigers. Instead it has an exhibit for polar bears to rival Assiniboine's Journey to Churchill, beautiful mountain exhibits like Calgary's Canadian Wilderness, nice big field exhibits like Zoo Sauvage, and an impressive coastal aquarium like Vancouver Aquarium. Take the best Canadian exhibits in the country and combine them in Ottawa and you would have one incredible Canadian zoo to showcase to the world with a strong conservation message centered entirely on Canadian species.

Some big conservation programs it could participate in would be.
Wood bison
Black black footed ferrets
Vancouver Island marmots
Polar bears
Caribou
Eastern loggerhead shrikes
Whooping Crane
Trumpeter Swans
Greater sage grouse
Swift foxes
Burrowing owls
Spotted Owls
Peregrine Falcon
Basically all reptiles and amphibians
Various fish species

Oh what could have been...

The zoo Ottawa never had

 

[Yi Qi]

Your idea is very interesting.

While not in Ottawa proper, there is the (rather mediocre from what I can tell) Papanack Park Zoo