The death of baby elephant Hansa has left zoo lovers wondering if more space, including the one-plus acre to be occupied by the Woodland Park Zoo's proposed parking garage, might have saved the popular animal.
How will noise, dust, pollution and other disruptions from round-the-clock, year-long construction of a parking garage traumatize the zoo's beloved residents? Nothing is ever said by zoo executives about the impacts of construction. Nothing is ever said by zoo leadership about the ongoing traumas caused by noisy, polluting traffic jams caused by concentrating cars in a massive 700-car steel structure. And let's be clear, the parking garage will be built on zoo grounds, not adjacent to the zoo as many are under the misimpression.
The garage's football-field-square footprint will take up more room in the zoo than the entire elephant exhibit. In memorials to Hansa, let's suggest tabling the parking garage until alternatives can be fully considered. Let's do it in Hansa's memory.
Seattle Times story.
Seattle P-I story on death, additional story on captivity controversies.
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