BigTusker15
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I'm curious now how the Master Plan will turn out, being they are relocating their Asian Elephants, Billy & Tina. I think they said they will bring elephants back in the future though.
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I'm curious now how the Master Plan will turn out, being they are relocating their Asian Elephants, Billy & Tina. I think they said they will bring elephants back in the future though.
BigTusker15
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From the LA Zoo website:
L.A. ZOO TO RELOCATE ELEPHANTS TO TULSA ZOO’S NEWLY EXPANDED ELEPHANT HABITAT AND PRESERVE
As well as the Tulsa Zoo website:
Tulsa Zoo To Welcome Two Asian Elephants
Brookrowcottage
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Woodland Park Zoo 1976, but sadly never came to fruition.
Do you have a copy of this to hand?
Milwaukee County Zoo has released a new master plan and I think it's a pretty solid one that will inject some amazing new life into the zoo and elevate it well above it's current status, provided the financials work out.
Rajang-GOAT
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For example at Chester Zoo, the two outdoor enclosures at Spirit of the Jaguar (which opened in 2001) are 1200 m² each. That's not to mention the two 800m² indoor enclosures!
At the smaller Hertfordshire Zoo the main Jaguar enclosure is around 430 m² (calculated using Google maps) while the smaller side is 180m². Although I imagine at the moment the two are combined and used together as they contain a settled breeding pair.
AmazonianHippo
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Not sure if you mean for this or not, but the 2nd outdoor and 2nd indoor enclosure are for Spectacled Bears, not the jaguars. That definitely doesn't take away from the brilliance of the habitat though!
Originally there were Jaguars in both exhibits and that was what the building was designed for. The two exhibits were supposed to demonstrate the widely different habitats(desert/jungle) they could be found in.
Rajang-GOAT
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I am aware that it had been a number of years since the savannah side of the house was used for Jaguars, but as Pertinax has said above, that is what it was designed for (one pair on each side). I would like to see the exhibit reach it's full potential once again for Jaguars in the future (and that could be the case as I believe it has held mostly temporary inhabitants in the last handful of years), however it doesn't change the fact that one pair of Jaguars get such a large amount of space split between inside and outside!
The entire document is c. 200 pages but if you PM me an email adress I can share a few interesting pages. There's excerpts from it in the WPZ media gallery on this site as well.
AmazonianHippo
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Ah, you learn something new everyday!
Rajang-GOAT
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Yes, although it has held a more vast area of species recently with bush dogs, Kyra the sun bear, Lima and previously Bernie(?) the Andean bears. I'm guessing it may have been a temporary home to even more species prior to Kyra because I don't think there were Jaguars in there for a few years before 2019/20 when she moved in.
Brookrowcottage
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Riverbanks zoo 20 Year Master Plan from 1973, including a "burrowing animal house" and "arctic Animal house"which was never built.
Nile Hippo Expert
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Here is the full 1976 Woodland Park Zoo long-term master plan, there are actually images of the full plan broken up into exhibits in the ZooChat gallery (credit for all photos goes to @StoppableSan).
1. Tropical Forest:
2. Savanna:
3. Desert:
4. Steppe:
5. Chaparral:
6. Temperate Deciduous Forest:
7. Temperate Rain Forest:
8. Taiga:
9. Tundra:
10. Montane:
2. Savanna:
3. Desert:
4. Steppe:
5. Chaparral:
6. Temperate Deciduous Forest:
7. Temperate Rain Forest:
8. Taiga:
9. Tundra:
10. Montane:
While I feel this is the most influential and groundbreaking zoo master plan ever, some major flaws are apparent 50 years later…Here is the full 1976 Woodland Park Zoo long-term master plan, there are actually images of the full plan broken up into exhibits in the ZooChat gallery (credit for all photos goes to @StoppableSan).
1. Tropical Forest:
2. Savanna:
3. Desert:
4. Steppe:
5. Chaparral:
6. Temperate Deciduous Forest:
7. Temperate Rain Forest:
8. Taiga:
9. Tundra:
10. Montane:
—Little or no attention to off exhibit/holding spaces
—Little or no attention to guest comfort/revenue generating elements (food service, restrooms etc)
—Lack of a clear way finding/ guest circulation system
Nevertheless, brilliant and visionary. Too bad current WPZ leadership has entirely abandoned virtually all aspects of the plan.
That's a valid criticism of the specifics of the plan. I didn't look too deeply into the numbers because I fully expect them to change when the exhibits start to reach fruition, and I'm hoping those changes end up positive. It's not a "great" master plan in terms of competing with world-class zoos like Chester, but it is a great plan in terms of improving a facility that relies heavily on dated infrastructure.
The first 2 issues are just too insanely NIMBY (Griffith Park objectionists) or just near-suicidal (GLAZA terminalion). The LA Zoo City Council is just a major ****-** hurdle where I do not understand why a big city like LA cannot balance its books and be in one of the richests Federal States of the USA.
NOTA BENE: I share all your pain(s) in this. Just feel incredibly sad and dejected about the whole situation myself. The Masterplan was the road map to some kind of wonderful and together some of California's finest have managed to screw up the entire board and game.
BenFoxster
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Even though I like Milwauke Zoo's master plan, as a Fresno Chaffee Zoo regular it's a bit disappointing to see SHR studios reusing our abandoned "African Hippo River" exhibit and self plagiarizing it into a South American exhibit!
Fresno Chaffee Scrapped African River Concept:
Milwauke Zoo South American Tropics Concept:
Fresno Chaffee Scrapped African River Concept:
Milwauke Zoo South American Tropics Concept: