This morning.
Phoenix Park, Dublin.
A shuttered Dublin Zoo as management launch a major fundraising drive. The Zoo is facing the prospect of permanent closure, as it incurs huge financial losses due to the rona lockdown.
Update…
❤ Save Dublin Zoo ❤
Wow, we are truly lost for words and can’t believe it! We have just hit over €500,000 in donations – thank you so much!
That is enough to cover the costs of animal care at Dublin Zoo for one whole month! #SaveDublinZoo pic.twitter.com/8oa7ImY7B0
— Dublin Zoo (@DublinZoo) November 18, 2020
Feeding time!!
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I donated 50 euros just now. would donate more if I had it. The wife bought me one of their hoodie. how this is allowed to struggle when the barbaric greyhound industry gets 19 million is morally wrong. Its our biggest tourist attraction and an institution.
I wonder is there such a thing as a ‘Zoo zoom’?
Stick up a live feed and generate ad revenue that way perhaps? Maybe it already exists, dunno?
They already have free live feeds on their website.
close the zoo it’s a cruel relic of the past
Yeah, I’m kind of conflicted on the zoo.
I have a lot of nice memories from my childhood, but as an adult anytime I’ve visited, I’ve always found it depressing.
Anyway, just heard on the radio Micheal Martin’s promised to sort it and foto wildlife park out.
I think Dublin Zoo would be a terrible loss. Made a donation this morning. It was a pretty depressing place in the 90s and early 2000s, but they’ve really undergone massive changes since then. The enclosures have been totally redesigned to give the animals a lot more to do and a lot more privacy. In an ideal world I suppose zoos wouldn’t exist because we wouldn’t hunt animals to extinction and destroy their habitats. But sadly we do. If we were to close all the zoos now we’d lose their invaluable conservation efforts.
We don’t need Zoos, we need wildlife sanctuaries. A Zoo in the middle of the capital city is not for the animals benefit.
+1
They are not ethical.
It would be good to see Dublin Zoo replaced with an amenity to suit all.
+1
Let’s all go to the Zoo tom….
Oh.
I adopted two animals there! Just have to find room for them now…
Maybe if they stopped letting the public pet the animals, it might keep the costs down.
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2020/1118/1178993-tapir-courts-settlement/
maybe if the were allowed to feed the animals with children who climb the barriers they wouldn’t need so much money for food
66K!!!
I love Dublin Zoo. I will donate too. Its a lovely place after all of the upgrades.
I hope they’ve ring-fenced the funding for the lion enclosure.
Nice!
less this,more this.
“A nature reserve is expecting a record-breaking baby boom of 4,000 grey seal pups this winter, the National Trust has said.Blakeney Nature Reserve in Norfolk has become England’s largest seal colony since recording its first pup in 1988.In 2019, 3,399 pups were born there, compared with 25 in 2001.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-54974873
Apparently it costs 5k per day to feed the elephants, could they not buy the food in Aldi or what?
That’s bananas.