Green Options » Huachipa Zoo http://greenoptions.com/tag/huachipa-zoo Posts tagged 'Huachipa Zoo' Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:28:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en A Review of the Huachipa Zoo in Lima, Peru and a Methodology for Grading Zoos http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/20/a-review-of-the-huachipa-zoo-in-lima-peru-and-a-methodology-for-grading-zoos/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/20/a-review-of-the-huachipa-zoo-in-lima-peru-and-a-methodology-for-grading-zoos/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:28:10 +0000 Levi Novey http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/20/a-review-of-the-huachipa-zoo-in-lima-peru-and-a-methodology-for-grading-zoos/ A Toucan-like Bird in the Huachipa ZooSeveral days ago my family visited one of Lima, Peru’s zoos. On the day before our visit, I wrote about some of my general thoughts and feelings about zoos, in an article titled “Why Zoos Stimulate Our Minds.”

Writing out my thoughts was a sort of preparative exercise, mostly to try to articulate the main dilemma I have with zoos: do the potential education benefits of zoos outweigh the cruelty of caging animals in small spaces that I personally believe typically don’t provide them with fulfilling lives? I still am not sure of the answer, but my trip to the Huachipa Zoo did answer another intriguing question for me. When zoos are bad, would I personally prefer that a bad zoo exist rather than have no zoo at all?

Before I reveal the answer to the aforementioned question, I should explain that my wife and I came up with some criteria for rating zoos. For the purpose of reviewing more zoos in the future, I wanted to have some reasonable means to compare them.

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