To the editor: The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens continues its unethical marketing campaign to assemble funds and simply acquired Metropolis Council backing with out having a remaining design. What different entity has demanded cash with out even a blueprint?
Take a peek on the already outsized car parking zone there and picture the bushes that have been leveled. Because the zoo insists now on creating 300 extra parking spots (actually), kiss the few bushes which are left goodbye. All this to organize for the worldwide vacationer, who, let’s face it, is there to see the Olympics and possibly a number of different animals, situated in Anaheim, named Mickey and Donald.
Ivan Borodin, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I’m extraordinarily upset that the L.A. Metropolis Council has voted unanimously to certify the environmental influence report for the zoo’s renovation, regardless of criticism by environmental teams and hillside neighborhoods.
There are quite a lot of us animal activists who’re towards this renovation as a result of now we have seen earlier than that the renovations normally are about making it extra pleasurable for guests than for the animals who reside there.
So let’s see — the L.A. Zoo is destroying the pure habitat of untamed animals to construct extra parking areas and provides the poor elephants what’s going to nonetheless be inadequate house for them! I additionally surprise if the orangutans will lastly get some bushes — I doubt it.
The $650 million for the preliminary section may have gone to truly save endangered species, however our Metropolis Council and the zoo again additional imprisonment for wild animals.
Patty Shenker, Woodland Hills
