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- <title>
- Apr. 22, 1991: World Notes:Britain
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 22, 1991 Nancy Reagan:Is She THAT Bad?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 57
- World Notes
- BRITAIN
- Is This Zoo Worth Saving?
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- <p> When officials of the financially strapped London Zoo let it
- be known that they may be forced to close the world's oldest
- animal park--and perhaps even kill off some of its 8,000
- inhabitants--many expected there would be an outpouring of
- sympathy, and cash, from animal-loving Britons.
- </p>
- <p> But a surprising number cried good riddance to the 40-acre
- Regent's Park facility, which was established by Sir Stamford
- Raffles in 1828 for the "introduction of curious subjects to the
- animal kingdom." Janet Fookes, head of Parliament's
- animal-rights committee, said closing the zoo would be a "major
- step forward for animal welfare," while Will Travers, director
- of the anti-zoo campaign Zoo Check, argued that "keeping animals
- in captivity for entertainment" could no longer be justified.
- </p>
- <p> Nevertheless, the zoo's switchboard last week was jammed
- by callers offering support and money, and four newspapers put
- in bids to become sponsors. Whether this will raise the $23
- million the zoo says it needs to survive is unclear. But
- Zoological Society director David Jones has put the closing plan
- on hold--and he insists that the zoo never had any intention
- of slaughtering its animals.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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