Friday, January 30, 2009
YOUR FIRED--
Seems like no job's safe these days, what with animals being fired from zoos now, due to budget cuts."'We're faced with this very difficult problem of firing the animals, as it were,' said Steve Sanderson, the CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium. They will lose $3 million to budget cuts.
The Bronx Zoo has made a short video posted on its Web site www.bronxzoo.com/ to draw attention to the cuts. In the video, the zoo director fires a porcupine and a frog.
'I am sure you have heard that Gov. [David] Paterson's proposed budget will mean severe cuts here at the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium,' the zoo director says. 'Next year, all 76 zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums in the state will lose all of their state funding. There is no easy way to say this: Even though you bring record numbers of people to New York and help the economy, we are going to have to let you go.'"
Poor animals. The ones being "laid off" are either going to other zoos our wildlife sanctuaries, while those with a shorter life span will simply not be replaced when they die. .__.;;
But of course, the animals aren't the only ones that have to go-- the employees as well. In fact, the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium may have to lay off up to 130 people.
"The Bronx Zoo isn't the only one affected; cutbacks are happening everywhere. The Los Angeles Zoo in California stopped work on its $42 million elephant exhibit last year, and there are big budget cuts for zoos in Maryland, Missouri and North Carolina."
Romans, Braggs, C, J (2009, January, 30). Budget cuts force Bronx Zoo to 'fire' animals.
CNN, Retrieved January 30, 2009, from
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/30/endangered.zoos/index.html
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