ZOO REPORT ADVISES MORE SPACE FOR ELEPHANTS.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer Elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. deserve larger quarters and should not be shipped off to a sanctuary sanctuary, sacred place, especially the most sacred part of a sacred place. In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, a sanctuary served as asylum, a place of refuge for persons fleeing from violence or from the penalties of the law. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an independent review released late Tuesday. The much-anticipated report by the Chief Administrative Office recommends that L.A.'s three elephants stay in L.A. - and their new exhibit be increased from two to three acres. The roughly 75-page CAO report consulted more than 30 zoo professionals, biologists and activists worldwide in order to respond to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's contention that the city's elephants need more space. City officials will soon decide whether to heed the report's recommendation or resort to other options such as closing the exhibit and packing the elephants off to a sanctuary. Until then, nearly $11 million needed to complete the exhibit has been put on hold. Adding one acre to the Elephants of Surin, as proposed in the report, would increase its cost from $19 million to $33 million - a $14 million increase. ``We have received the study and are reviewing it,'' said Los Angeles Zoo spokesman Jason Jacobs. While animal activists say the proposed two-acre exhibit would be too small to humanely hu·mane adj. 1. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion: a humane judge. 2. Marked by an emphasis on humanistic values and concerns: a humane education. keep elephants, zoo officials say it would exceed national standards. Citing excessive costs, the CAO report rejected such options as building a four- to six-acre elephant exhibit near the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. , or sending Ruby ruby, precious stone, the transparent red variety of corundum, found chiefly in Myanmar, Thailand, and Sri Lanka and classified among the most valuable of gems. The Myanmarese stones are blood red, the most valued tint being the "pigeon's blood. , Gita and Billy to one of two national sanctuaries. Dana Bartholomew, (818) 713-3730 dana.bartholomew(at)dailynews.com |
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