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...very thing that is killing Chiang Rai can also be used to save indigenous traditions. While most tour guides based in town treat hill-tribe visits like trips to the zoo, the Akha village of Ban Lorcha, about an hour's drive away from Chiang Rai, is providing an interactive educational experience for visitors by becoming a living museum. "This project has been very valuable for our community," says Ban Lorcha Community Based Tourism Development Project director Songnam Ritwanna. "In the past, tourists just walked through the village, but no one could explain to them the culture, so they didn...
...male lion bit the arm of a 21-year-old zookeeper Sunday at Busch Gardens, severing it at the elbow... Zoo officials said they had not decided what to do with the lion." -The Associated Press...
...While I have a great deal of sympathy for Amanda, it's not so hard to understand why Max did what he did. Zoo officials say they won't sell or kill Max; after all, he was just doing what he was born to do. Everything in his makeup tells him to attack - that's why there are bars on his cage...
...wham! You're hit by a stun gun, and the next thing you know, you've been stuffed into a cage. Three days later, everyone expects you to act "interesting" for expectant-looking adults and sniveling, balloon-toting kids lined up outside your faux-natural habitat at the local zoo...
...have zoos in the first place? So we can watch animals acting nothing like themselves in a plastic environment? So we can point at orangutans and pretend we're learning something about them when in fact we're simply capitalizing on their misery? So zoo gift shops can sell lots of "I Survived the Snake House" t-shirts? Proponents of zoos say that the public needs to see animals up close so we will be moved to fund habitats around the world. But try telling that to the unlucky beasts who get to waste away in thralldom so other animals...