Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens Los Angeles Zoo elephant lawsuit moves forward
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mstickmanp
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I don't know, I've also been looking around the web, but nothing has come up...
I wonder what the PP has to say about that. What I am really dismayed at is that by repetition these lawsuits can be filed publicly while their public interest is debatable. IMO: in a criminal lawsuit similar charges can only be brought once. This all is once more the same ole heap of charges as before. Indeed, a waste of public money (the lawsuit ... that is).
For the record: what I have seen of the LA Zoo looks good and not just on paper. Also, the way the zoo is moving ahead (it more or less seems to reciprocate the SF Zoo sagas where the zoo is strongly embedded in the local community and does a lot of conservation work ex situ and on site for the community too).
For what it is worth: old exhibits in need of renovation exist almost in every zoo in the Western world. It just requires investment and commit-ment on the part of legislators and Zoo Board to work with them to make it happen. Sadly, in most cases too many bureacrats abound that lay the law on animal welfare standards without any zoo + wild animal management on site knowledge and are content to leave it at that. Good exhibts require sound plans and adequate investment. The latter is something we can all move forward.
mstickmanp, you are doing a great job (animal enrichment).
KPCC story from 10-29-10
Two more elephants on the way to the LA Zoo | 89.3 KPCC
Sounds like it must be good to go with no ruling news to speak of. Where were the other elephants intended to come from? I presume this was all well figured out.
Two more elephants on the way to the LA Zoo | 89.3 KPCC
Sounds like it must be good to go with no ruling news to speak of. Where were the other elephants intended to come from? I presume this was all well figured out.
The hearing has been held and execution has been staved off (till December at the very least).
See the link: L.A. Zoo to get new elephants to go with new exhibit - latimes.com
One must assume that given the move / gesture by SD-Zoo towards LA Zoo in sending elephant is part and parcel of an expected final and favourable outcome (for LA Zoo and an active elephant habitat within the zoo grounds?
I do hope that the move of Tina and Jewel will be moved forward so we can make proper use of the LA Zoo investment in elephant exhibitry and the bull will have access to cows.
See the link: L.A. Zoo to get new elephants to go with new exhibit - latimes.com
One must assume that given the move / gesture by SD-Zoo towards LA Zoo in sending elephant is part and parcel of an expected final and favourable outcome (for LA Zoo and an active elephant habitat within the zoo grounds?
I do hope that the move of Tina and Jewel will be moved forward so we can make proper use of the LA Zoo investment in elephant exhibitry and the bull will have access to cows.
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CritterBlog
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The next hearing in the case is scheduled for December.
"We're going to keep proceeding until the court tells us otherwise," said Lewis.
(Tina and Jewel are not breeding cows.)
The plan is to acquire no more than two more in the next few years, Lewis said. That number is a good fit, he said, for the zoo's current level of staffing and funding.
"We're going to keep proceeding until the court tells us otherwise," said Lewis.
(Tina and Jewel are not breeding cows.)
The plan is to acquire no more than two more in the next few years, Lewis said. That number is a good fit, he said, for the zoo's current level of staffing and funding.