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...private funding. But at the same time, donors to the Bronx Zoo and its sister institutions across the nation are getting squeezed by the economic crisis, leaving the zoos little to fall back on. "We thought they'd use a scalpel to cut, not an ax," says John Calvelli, director of external affairs at the Bronx Zoo. "Where exactly are we supposed...
...society that is growing increasingly citified and divorced from nature - some 80% of Americans now live in urban areas - a zoo provides one of the few chances to connect with the other species that share our planet. "This is where you go to learn about the natural world," says Calvelli. "We're living museums." It would be a shame to lose any of them, even in the midst of a recession - and, frankly, who wants to be the person to tell a lion it's being laid...
...fire our bears or furlough our sea lions.' JOHN CALVELLI, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, on the New York governor's plan to cut funding for zoos and aquariums...
...These animals help us tell the story about wildlife. They are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild," explains John Calvelli, a spokesman for the WCS, which distributed the video on Jan. 12. Since then, the group says it has tracked more than 20,000 letters and e-mails sent to the state of New York pleading for Paterson to reconsider his cuts...
...Paterson, facing a $15 billion budget shortfall, wants to cut 55% of state funding to institutions like the Bronx Zoo in 2009 and 100% of state funding in 2010. According to Calvelli, state dollars make up a small percentage of institution budgets - less than 10% in the case of the Bronx Zoo - but any cuts will only add to anticipated reductions in endowments and other public funding. If the state pulls financing, Calvelli says, service and program cuts as well as (human) layoffs are possible...