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Zoos reopening: What will change for visitors?
2020-06-10 15:07:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Social distancing "won't be a problem" for open-air sites, but other limitations may prove trickier.
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Coronavirus: Zoos and safari parks set to reopen from 15 June - PM
2020-06-10 10:28:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Boris Johnson is due to announce the move will be subject to distancing measures being in place.
5 Times Animals Have Been Killed in Zoos Due to Human Encounters
2016-06-03 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Within one week in May, a gorilla and two lions were killed after humans entered their zoo enclosures. Outrage continues to grow over these deaths. Yet these tragedies are not unique and in most cases are preventable. (Of course, the easiest way to prevent deaths like these would be by not keeping animals in zoos). 1. Harambe the Gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, May 2016 Western-lowland gorillas are critically endangered and now theres one less of them with the death of Harambe after a 4-year-old...
Pittsburgh Zoo's elephant expert helps Zimbabwe handlers stop spread of tuberculosis
2016-04-12 09:57:34| Chemicals - Topix.net
The Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium elephant curator has traveled to Zimbabwe to teach handlers for elephant-back safaris how to test elephants for tuberculosis, which is still a problem in humans in that country. SENT A SPECIAL MAN TO AFRICA TO HELP >> I KNOW.
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18 elephants to be flown to US zoos as drought puts pressure on Swaziland wildlife
2016-02-26 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eighteen elephants, due to be culled because the intense drought in southern Africa has left a national park in Swaziland without food, could be flown to zoos in the US. It is hoped that moving them will give endangered rhinos more chance of survival. The three male and 15 female elephants from parched Hlane national park are being held temporarily by a local conservation group pending a court case brought by US animal welfare groups concerned about their export. But they are planned to be...
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