MAHARASHTRA TO SEE TWO NEW "WORLD CLASS" ZOOS

Zoos --> a safe haven for animals --> also means visitors and revenue, then make it 'world class' and attract international tourists -- more employment -- a win-win situation for all ?

I have never liked the concept of zoos except when they are used as 'transitional shelters' for rescued animals to be prepared for release back into the wild. I have seen the San Diego zoo, the Saint Louis Zoo and the Jijamata Zoo at Mumbai that is pitiable in comparison, but however 'world-class' a zoo maybe, they all happen at the cost of incarcerating animals where we keep telling ourselves that the animals are 'safe'.


Maharashtra government plans two zoos - at Goregaon in Mumbai and at Gorewara on the outskirts of Nagpur. Moreoever, private companies will be allowed to construct a seven star hotels, convention centres, shopping plazas and eateries out of the demarcated zoo area for recovering their investment into developing the zoo areas. Read more about it Here.

I would rather like to see more efforts and development around the existing vast tiger and other green reserves and make them into controlled tourist hot spots with spaced out forest guest houses like tigertrails at nagpur or like the beautiful log cabins at Smokey Mountains in Tennessee - without having to terribly delimit the freedom of the poor animals...