Toronto Zoo
Wild times ahead for T.O. Zoo
City-owned wild animal park dogged by controversy as it launches $250M fundraising drive
By ANTONELLA ARTUSO, QUEEN’S PARK BUREAU CHIEF
There’s two-legged trouble at the Toronto Zoo.
The management of the city-owned wild animal park has become entangled in controversy just as it’s launching an ambitious $250-million fundraising campaign.
Two members of the zoo management board have resigned in [...]
City pooh-poohs zoo’s plan to recycle waste
JENNIFER LEWINGTON
CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF
The city’s budget chief has poured cold water, for now, on the Toronto Zoo’s talk of harnessing its prodigious output of animal dung as a future source of green power.
“In the budget process, we look at the fully baked ideas, not the three-quarters baked or half-baked ideas,” says Councillor Shelley Carroll [...]
Zoo’s poo aids push to become ‘carbon-neutral’
Donovan Vincent
City Hall Bureau
The Toronto Zoo wants to build a $13 million facility that would turn “zoo poo” into electricity.
The call for an on site anaerobic digester – using methane gas from animal waste to produce power – is part of the zoo’s new push to become “carbon-neutral.”
The question is how to pay for it. [...]
Offspring Pines For Mom, After T.O. Zoo Elephant Dies Unexpectedly
Thursday September 4, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff
They may never know what killed her and they still can’t believe she’s gone.
CityNews.ca was the first to tell you Wednesday about the sudden death of Tequila, a 38-year-old African elephant who had been a long time resident of the Toronto Zoo. Officials admit they have no real idea what may [...]