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Raja Harimau

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Recently, it has been announced on Niabi Zoo's (Coal Valley, IL) Facebook page that the AZA-accredited zoo is currently the only zoo with elephants in Illinois, as three(?) of Brookfield's died and their remaining one was sent back to her original home. It has also been announced, that, through a Trivia Night, they have raised $3000 that will help fund for a newer, bigger elephant habitat for the zoo's current pair (I think they have two), and another elephant will probably join them on account of AZA terms. On other news, a new Jungle exhibit, with three or four poison dart frog species, as well as a goliath birdeater has opened, and if you live in the Quad Cities area, or anywhere close to Niabi Zoo, keep an eye out for two young giraffes, a male and a female, born on Apr. 10, 2010, and Dec. 27, 2009 respectively.
 
Congratulations to Niabi Zoo, the $3000 is a great start for buying a new sign for their exhibit.
 
geomorph said:
Congratulations to Niabi Zoo, the $3000 is a great start for buying a new sign for their exhibit.
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Actually, it might be enough to buy the vinyl lettering to put on the sign.

One wonders with this level of financial "strength" whether Niabi Zoo should be in the business of keeping elephants at all.....
 
reduakari said:
Actually, it might be enough to buy the vinyl lettering to put on the sign.

One wonders with this level of financial "strength" whether Niabi Zoo should be in the business of keeping elephants at all.....
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Actually we could do the vinyl lettering for cheaper than that at my place of work,and that would include shipping it over to the USA from the UK!!
 
A small private zoo like Niabi can make money go much , much farther than a big public zoo. Models, plans, architects - it can all be done in-house if you don't have a political establishment to answer to. $3000 at Niabi would probably buy as moch as $30,000 to $60,000 at a big public zoo. I think spending $3000 on a sign would verge on the criminal, when you stop to consider how much that amount of money can accomplish in an in-situ conservation program.
 
ZooMan Texas said:
A small private zoo like Niabi can make money go much , much farther than a big public zoo. Models, plans, architects - it can all be done in-house if you don't have a political establishment to answer to. $3000 at Niabi would probably buy as moch as $30,000 to $60,000 at a big public zoo. I think spending $3000 on a sign would verge on the criminal, when you stop to consider how much that amount of money can accomplish in an in-situ conservation program.
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I think the signage thing was tongue-in-cheek mate. However, going by their website this zoo is operated by the county, not privately.
 
ZooMan Texas said:
A small private zoo like Niabi can make money go much , much farther than a big public zoo. Models, plans, architects - it can all be done in-house if you don't have a political establishment to answer to. $3000 at Niabi would probably buy as moch as $30,000 to $60,000 at a big public zoo. I think spending $3000 on a sign would verge on the criminal, when you stop to consider how much that amount of money can accomplish in an in-situ conservation program.
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I have read the reviews of your private "zoo," as well as your previous posts defending/rationalizing the breeding and exhibition of white tigers.

No need to add anything to that....
 
reduakari said:
Actually, it might be enough to buy the vinyl lettering to put on the sign.

One wonders with this level of financial "strength" whether Niabi Zoo should be in the business of keeping elephants at all.....
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Who's to say they'll have a sign? xD

And they have additional funds to help build for the elephant habitat.
 
Raja Harimau said:
Who's to say they'll have a sign? xD

And they have additional funds to help build for the elephant habitat.
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Not to continue to rain on the parade, but at $3000 per fundraiser it will take a couple of centuries to raise enough to build an even halfway adequate "habitat" for elephants. While one could hope Niabi might provide the support needed to have a zoo capable of housing and caring for elephants, in my view they would be far better off moving the elephants and concentrating on species that make sense, given the community's demonstrably limited capacity.
 
What IS the rationale / thinking behind the NO ACCREDITATION given to the zoo? :confused: (f.i. what deficiencies were so serious they had to lose it)
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
What IS the rationale / thinking behind the NO ACCREDITATION given to the zoo? :confused: (f.i. what deficiencies were so serious they had to lose it)
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Often the general public never knows the full extent of any zoo's specific problems, but this editorial gives a few details and also focuses on the elephant exhibit:

The elephant in the room
 
Ah, right ... it almost seems a direct opposite of the goings on at Toronto with African elephants.

Personally, I would have sent off the elderly Asiatic eles to a zoo in better shape to have a good standard elephants exhibit for them and look after their needs.

This would open up all sorts for what to do with the space next for Niabi Zoo.
 
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