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Los Angeles Zoo

The Real Cost of "Virtual" Nature

Brenda Scott Royce | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Videophilia, Zoos, Elephants, Animatronic Elephants, Zoo Elephants, Sea World, Peta, Los Angeles Zoo, Virtual Nature, Richard Louv, Robert Kennedy Jr., Nature-Deficit Disorder, Children, Animals, Los Angeles, Electronic Media, Technology, Green News
Brenda Scott Royce

A zoo visit won't achieve the same level of impact as an African safari, but most of us, viewing elephants and other exotic animals in their ever-shrinking native habitat is not possible.

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Odd Couple at the Zoo: Slash and Betty White

Brenda Scott Royce | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pachyderm Forest, L.A. Zoo, Golden Girls, Elephants, Slash, Los Angeles Zoo, Betty White, Guns N' Roses, Zoo, Animals, Entertainment News
Brenda Scott Royce

Rocker Slash (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver) and "Golden Girl" Betty White have joined forces to battle activists seeking to cease construction of the L.A. Zoo's Asian elephant habitat.

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The Rocker and the Golden Girl

Brenda Scott Royce | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slash, L.A. Zoo, Guns N Roses Slash, Betty White, Golden Girls, Billy the Elephant, Pachyderm Forest, Los Angeles Zoo, Entertainment News
Brenda Scott Royce

Few pairings could be stranger than rocker Slash... and Golden Girl Betty White. But both have thrown their weight behind the Los Angeles Zoo's new elephant habitat.

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Bob & Lily & Jack & Betty

Brenda Scott Royce | Posted 01.07.2009 | Green

Read More: L.A. Zoo, Betty White, Bob Barker, Jack Hanna, Herb Wesson, Billy the Elephant, Zoo Elephants, Pachyderm Forest, Lily Tomlin, Los Angeles Zoo, Robert Culp, Nuclear Weapons, Animals, Green News
Brenda Scott Royce

Bob Barker appeared before the L.A. City Council, invoking the name of his best-known gig when he said of the LA Zoo elephant habitat's $42 million cost: "The price is not right."

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The Myth of the Wild

Brenda Scott Royce | Posted 01.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Animal Rights, L.A. Zoo, Free Billy, Elephants, Zoo, Billy the Elephant, Conservation, Animals, Los Angeles Zoo, Wildlife Sanctuary, Pachyderm Forest, Living News
Brenda Scott Royce

Most animal lovers would agree they'd prefer that exotic animals live in the wild than in captivity. But with our planet increasingly in peril, how many truly wild places remain?

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Zoo Is Not a Dirty Word

Brenda Scott Royce | Posted 12.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), Wildlife Sanctuary, Zoos, Zoological Gardens, Elephants, Pachyderm, Conservation, Animals, Los Angeles Zoo, Living News
Brenda Scott Royce

A small, vocal group of animal activists in Los Angeles is mounting a campaign to halt construction on the new elephant exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo, and to send its Asian bull elephant to a sanctuary.

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