On our cover this week: There's been a lot of strange stuff happening at the Dallas Zoo lately. What's it all for?
The Dallas Zoo is hardening its security by adding cameras and fencing and nearly tripling patrols, among other measures. Its neighbor to the west, the Fort Worth Zoo, has also ramped up security in response.
“The zoo is part of our community — it's like six minutes away from our house — and so, to see them struggling through something like this, it's just painful to see happen on a consistent basis,” he said. “Because you do see a lot of people that work there who actually care and want to see good done for these animals.”
Flaherty, who is also sad for what zoo staff have had to endure, said she’s never had a negative experience there. The way she sees it, the positive aspects of zoos far outweigh the negatives. The 11 stolen animals included a prehensile-tailed skink and a squirrel monkey. Two others, a box turtle and gopher tortoise, were ultimately never recovered, Miot told theLearning what the Dallas Zoo is going through brought up some painful memories of the theft at his own facility.
and emphasizes field conservation efforts. An annual report from 2021 claims that “more than 900 species, subspecies, and species groups benefited from both species-specific and habitat-focused conservation projects.” Of those, 120 species and subspecies were considered critically endangered.for endangered species, leading to the reintroduction into the wild of some animals, like the Arabian oryx. Critics insist that such conservation boasts may be overstated.
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