What zoo improved the most in recent years?

Akron has also made a ton of improvements over the lady 10 years too.
- Grizzly Ridge (2013)
- Curious Creatures (2018)
- Pride of Africa (2020)
- Wild Asia (2021)
- Garden View Place (2023)
- Pride of Africa II (upcoming)
 
Yellow River Wildlife Sanctuary (formerly Yellow River Game Ranch) seems to be on the path to a 180 following shutting down and getting bought by new owners. They’ve still got a ways to go in some aspects, but gone are the fairly recent days where they had cougars in corn crib cages and bears in a concrete pit. I think at this point aside from a few birds, all of their expansive collection of corn crib cages have been phased out in favor of (or incorporated into) larger, more enrichment- and natural substrate-filled enclosures.
 
Lincoln Park Zoo's last decade has been very significant. The transformation of the historic cat house, once a zoochat embarrassment, into an excellent lion exhibit while still respecting the historicity of the building, has seen a lot of attention. The old bear line becoming solid penguin and polar bear exhibits has also been spotlighted. It's a really high-quality zoo for its size with most charismatic megafauna but still plenty of birds and smaller mammals, and some fewer but interesting reptiles.
 
PossumRoach said:
Sure the OP @Emanuel Theodorus should have been more clear when defining “recent years”. When some of the posts before yours and mine brought up the last ten years, I am sure saying that the 80s to early 90s is not recent does add something to the discussion.
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Yeah I was definitely thinking about more recent the last ten years. 80s-90s would've at least been 34 years of difference by now and a LOT have changed for better or worse in these times.
 
Zoo Atlanta has definitely done some substantial cleaning up. Slimy, Scaly, Spectacular is a world class reptile house. And the improved Africa section gives the elephants triple the space they had previously.
 
I have to mention Artis, because when I first visited in 1999, many exhibits were outdated and unsuitable for the species in them.

Since then, so much has been renovated, demolished, rebuild, species replaced with smaller species and botanically brushed up that it’s starting to become one of the best examples of old city zoo’s of Europe. A job well done and still ongoing :)
 
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