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- From: JVDWIEL@KUBVX1.KUB.NL (Joost vd Wiel)
- Subject: London Zoo
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.161715.2902@kub.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:17:15 GMT
- Organization: Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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- Hi all,
-
- Last week I was watching a docu-programm about the London Zoo on the the
- BBC2 television. It was about the problems that the oldest, and maybe also th
- biggest zoo in the world has.
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- One of the major problems was a financail one, the zoo needed about 10 million
- pounds 'to pay all the bills' (simply stated).
- Me and my room-mate thought it was a pity that this had to happen too this
- zoo, and we were wondering whether there would not be a very simple solution
- to (all ??) this problem:
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- Why not turn the zoo into a academis-research institute? (the LARZ, stands for
- London Academic Reasearch Zoo, makes it easier for me to type :-) )
- This LARZ has various advantages. Not only can it stay open for the public,
- but also can several disciplines be tought. We were thinking about students in
- animal-psychology, veteran students, zoologists, recreations students, etcetra.
- As students pay college money, and sceintist can do research for companies,
- payed for offcourse, money gets in. And with this money some of the costs can
- be covered.
-
- Besides that the EC or the Brittish Government can (and propably *will*)
- subsidize the LARZ, it is (as far as I know) also a unique thing. The zoo was
- unique, but as an institute it will become even more.
-
- Maybe this already happened in the past, and the zoo is a 'LARZ' already, but
- if so I have never heard of, and if so: why is it that it is almost 'bankrupt'
- and why is it that such a unique 'business' has to be covered up.
-
- I hope I get some response to this, because I really would like to know how
- you think about it.
-
- Greetings,
- Joost van de Wiel.
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- -- * Joost van de Wiel
- -- Student of Information Sceince
- -- at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
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