Just say no to Oakland City Zoo expansion
by James K. Sayre
The Oakland Zoo, which is located in the hills of the City of Oakland, in northern California, plans to take over and develop some 45 acres of designed open space in the neighboring Knowland Park to build new exhibits to showcase native California animals that have killed off and driven to extinction by having their habitats destroyed in the last two hundred years by human development. Ironic, huh? The zoo directors plan more development in the works including a ski-lift type gondola rider for visitors (is this a theme park, an amusement park or a zoo?). There is also planned a new massive three-story building that was not in the original plans that were approved by the City some ten years ago. There are also plans for a campground in the zoo... Good grief, do kids have to camp inside of a zoo? Maybe they should try camping in the natural woods and remaining open space first.
One of the alleged goals of all this new development and consequent destruction of open space habitat is to "educate people about the positive aspects of saving open space." These folks want to destroy open space to save open space? Absurd.
Zoos are basically just animal prisons, whose innocent animal inmates have been given a life sentence with no possibility of parole. Close down animal prisons. Zoos are just leftovers from our barbaric past.
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