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Animals for ransom: zoos & the COVID-19 cash flow crunch

May 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Is COVID-19 really Armaggedon for zoos,  or just another funding pitch?              HONG KONG,  LONDON––Seven thousand animals at Ocean Park in Hong Kong and as many as 20,000 animals at the London Zoo and subsidiary Whipsnade Zoo are only the most politically conspicuous of thousands of menageries now at risk––and perhaps being held for ransom […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Isles, United Kingdom, Zoos Tagged With: Amir Khalil, Andrew Rosindell, Edwin Wiek, Joy Marie Somers, Lawrence Anthony, Merritt Clifton, Verena Kaspari

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