I propose a ZooChat petition to the Dept of Culture, Media & Sport and the ZSL to delist, decommission and demolish the Casson building. It's a waste of space in every sense of the phrase. Alan
It was never any use for the original purpose, & is a waste of space now. London Zoo is a bit disappointing for those of us with long memories. On my last visit I couldn't find a goose or a crane anywhere, and they used to display these rather well on the North Bank. Nobody wants a return to a postage stamp collection, but the term 'zoo with no animals' has been used.......
It's architecturally fascinating. Just needs a bit more imagination to be used inside rather than just sticking some wire cages in the edges.
yes but them memories you talk about, arnt they the days of unfit enclosures, cramped cells and all the other zoo horrors people talk of, yet when they lose some species everyone is up in arms about it, they havent gained any more land space and doubt they ever will,choices have to be made like the comfort of the animals or the amount of species available to the public. they seem to be focusing on conservation as i understand, and are doing a bloody good job on it.
I don't think FBBird was thinking of domestic geese, but more the area of Hawai'ian, Red-fronted, Barnacle, Pink-footed, Bean etc. Plenty of wild geese (including some very rare ones!). Take a look at the Blackbrook gallery - plenty in there.
yes i was just being funny! he peed me off abit but having said that out of the 5 geese u mention i can see 3 maybe 4 of them in london parks and along the thames!
Now that it seems to be planned to mix with the new tiger enclosure (malayan tapirs in the camel yard etc), I thought it'd be great if they set up some 'mini clore rainforests' in the animal houses where the light shines through; the height in those would be great for free-flying birds and livingstone's flying foxes.
