[bill1952]

The $58,000 it spends each year on each elephant could instead be steered to the WCS's elephant conservation work in Asia and Africa, Sanderson said, where it already spends $2 million a year in 10 countries.

Yesh, what the heck is a Zoo doing keeping animals anyway?

Glad to hear that they will have none.
Now all they have to do is get rid of the rest of those pesky animals and stop calling themselves a Zoo.

[presidio9]

They actually tried to stop calling themsleves a zoo a few years ago. They changed there name to Bronx Wildlife Conservation Center, and made a big deal out of it. They insisted that people start using the correct name. After a few years of everybody ignoring them, they eventually relented and changed the name back.