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That is a huge leap. Not that it might not be warrented but thats more than doubling the price over 2013! I can see locals going nuts. It might have been wiser to split the increase up over a couple of years so it doesn't have that huge of a shock factor. Or have raised it little by little in anticipation of the opening. I have a feeling there might be a reduction coming when people rebell. The exhibit is fantastic but doubling the price for one species is nuts. Even Toronto wasn't greedy enough to more than double the admission price for the pandas!
 
The zoo has a zebra foal according to facebook. Unfortunately they didnt provide the details.
 
TZFan said:
That is a huge leap. Not that it might not be warrented but thats more than doubling the price over 2013! I can see locals going nuts. It might have been wiser to split the increase up over a couple of years so it doesn't have that huge of a shock factor. Or have raised it little by little in anticipation of the opening. I have a feeling there might be a reduction coming when people rebell. The exhibit is fantastic but doubling the price for one species is nuts. Even Toronto wasn't greedy enough to more than double the admission price for the pandas!
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How and to what extent is the Assiniboine Park Zoo being funded? :confused: That might be some of the explanation … (failure to provide adequate cover)?
 
Its not my home town zoo but I believe it used to be city funded completely and they are working to stand on their own. Admission used to be free apparently not all that long ago so its really ticking people off that they have to pay even more for the same thing they used to get for free.

I dont think the new admission is unreasonable. I would love to pay that little for Toronto. Many people across North America would kill to pay that for their zoos. I just think going from $8.50 at the beginning of the year to $18.50 in one shot wasnt the wisest move. With the coming of Journey to Churchill I would have been slowly creeping it up so people didnt notice and then make a small jump at opening and continued to creep up until I hit the magic number. It's what the gas companies do. Slowly creep up by small numbers, let us accept it and then keep going up. Difference is the gas industry has no stopping point.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out once the exhibit opens. Will people still flood in despite their complaints? Will they really boycot the zoo in signficant number?
 
TZFan, accepted.

Maybe: It is to do with Municipal authorities getting rid of the zoo on the cheap (without them making the necessary arrangements - like the zoo structural improvements they should have done while under the City … - before handing over to a independent Zoo Board). A mistake made quite often … (when zoos are transferred from governmental to their own independent organizational structure).
 
Im not sure about the circumstances around any of the transfer of control.

Im sure in time the people will just accept the new price. Sure lots wont be able to pay but the Journey to Churchill exhibit will draw in vital tourists considering how amazing it looks and if they ever get up to the 8-12 bears they expect to reach its sure to draw in even more, especially from the US were they are dying for just one bear at some faclitlies.
 
The zoo explains the reasons behind the price increase in this press release.
http://cms.tng-secure.com/file_download.php?fFile_id=28560

The city is cutting back on their share of the funding so the park needs to make up that lost income

Also,
I took a walk around the construction for the new gate. I will try to attach a photo. The new entrance will be opened the same day as the Churchill exhibit
 

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KrissyR said:
The zoo explains the reasons behind the price increase in this press release.
http://cms.tng-secure.com/file_download.php?fFile_id=28560

The city is cutting back on their share of the funding so the park needs to make up that lost income

Also,
I took a walk around the construction for the new gate. I will try to attach a photo. The new entrance will be opened the same day as the Churchill exhibit
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Good to communicate this. Whether it will point citizens (or voters) on the right track is anybody's guess?!!

I firmly believe a zoo is a non-for-profit supra educational institution and thus is as deserving of public funding / finance as any public theater or opera house or museum. Sadly, local and regional authorities seem to think that an wild animal and plant exhibiting is a nice cash cow and one of the most convenient "beneficiaries" of any council / provincial or central government funding. Their adagium: it will not hurt the masses …. How wrong they are (IMO)!!!
 
That's fantastic! Every little bit helps doesnt it.

What is more interesting to me is that they want to house 12 owls! This is going to be something to see one day with 12 snowy owls, 12 polar bears, and anything else thats there. Incredible.
 
Snowleopard are you planning on making a visit to Winnipeg to see Journey to Churchill sometime? I know this summer is packed with your epic journey. Just wondering if at some point in the future we will get to hear one of your great reviews for the new exhibit.
 
TZFan said:
Snowleopard are you planning on making a visit to Winnipeg to see Journey to Churchill sometime? I know this summer is packed with your epic journey. Just wondering if at some point in the future we will get to hear one of your great reviews for the new exhibit.
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I'm incredibly tempted to add a day to my 20-day trip just so I can peruse the potentially fantastic complex but ticking off 3 zoos a day is my goal and so I'm not sure that I can justify all the extra driving and then going back and forth across the border (a major pain) to make it up to Winnipeg.

Although, the Club Regent Aquarium in Winnipeg is CAZA-accredited and so I could tick off that as well.:)
 
Oh you have put so much time into your plan Snowleopard, dont risk throwing things off. Maybe next year you plan a Canadian marathon of zoos. There's several new exhibits at the bigger zoos. Calgary has the rhinos, komodos and mandrills. Winnipeg has Journey to Churchill. Toronto has the Eurasian Wilds, Pandas, a new giraffe exhibit and a hoofstock animal to be named later. Plus there's Ripley's Aquarium which you havent visited yet. Granby has their new Australian exhibit. Lots of new to review plus all of the smaller zoos and aquariums along the way.
 
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