Greater Vancouver Zoo

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Greater Vancouver Zoo
Date opened	1970 (as Vancouver Game Farm)
Location	5048 264th Street Aldergrove, British Columbia, CAN
Accreditations/ Memberships	CAZA
Website

The Greater Vancouver Zoo is a zoo located in Aldergrove, British Columbia. It is the first zoo in the world to own Segways.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Vancouver Game Farm era 1970-95 1.2 Greater Vancouver Zoological Centre 1995-99 1.3 Greater Vancouver Zoo era 1999-present 2 Animals 3 Accusations of cruelty 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Vancouver Game Farm era 1970-95

[edit] Greater Vancouver Zoological Centre 1995-99

[edit] Greater Vancouver Zoo era 1999-present

[edit] Animals

Addax African Elephant (No longer at zoo) African Grey Parrot African Lion African Spurred Tortoise Ankole-Watusi Cattle Aoudad Arctic Wolf Asian Elephant (until 2003) Albino Burmese Python Asian Painted Frog Bactrian Camel Bald Eagle Ball Python Bibron's gecko Bison Bighorn Sheep Black Bear Black Burro Black Swan Blackbuck Black-necked Swan Black-tailed Deer Blue-and-gold Macaw Burmese Python Capybara Caracal Caribbean Flamingo Cheetah Chilean Flamingo Chilean Rose Tarantula Chinchilla Coati Collared Peccary Costa-Rican Zebra Tarantula Cougar Coyote Crowned Crane Dromedary Camel Demoiselle Crane Egyptian Goose Eland Emperor Goose Emu Eurasian Crane Eurasian Lynx Fallow Deer Geoffroy's Marmoset Giant Plated Lizard Giraffe Great Horned Owl Green Iguana Green-winged Macaw Grizzly Bear Guanaco Gyrfalcon Harris Hawk Helmeted Guineafowl Hippopotamus Ibex Jaguar Kulan Leopard Gecko

Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Mara Marabou Stork Markhor Miniature horse Moose Mule Deer Mute Swan Nēnē Nilgai North China Leopard (No longer at zoo) Oregon Spotted Frog Oriental Fire-bellied Toad Ornate Nile monitor Ostrich Peafowl Père David's Deer Peregrine Falcon Poison Dart Frog Raccoon Red-breasted Goose Red-eared Slider Red-necked Wallaby Reindeer Rhea Ring-tailed Lemur Rocky Mountain Goat Roosevelt elk Saharan Spiny-Tailed Lizard Salmon-crested Cockatoo Sandhill Crane Schneider's Skink Scimitar-Horned Oryx Senegal Bichir Siberian Tiger Sika Deer Sinaloan Milksnake Common Snapping Turtle Snow Goose Softshell Turtle Spectacled Caiman Spider Monkey Squirrel Monkey Sugar Glider Tokay Gecko Trumpeter Swan Vancouver Island Wolf Vulturine Guineafowl White Elk White Rhinoceros White-tailed Deer White-nosed Coati White's Tree Frog Whooper Swan Wild Boar Wild Turkey Yak Yellow Baboon Yellow-bellied Slider Yellow-naped Amazon Yellow-throated Plated Lizard Zebra Zebu

[edit] Accusations of cruelty

On May 31, 2006, the Crown Counsel of British Columbia laid formal charges^[1] against the Greater Vancouver Zoo, in accordance with the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, for failing to provide adequate facilities for a baby hippo acquired in October 2004. This was the first case of a major Canadian zoo being charged with cruelty to animals.^[1]

In January 2007 the case was stayed as crown counsel believed, with the opening of a new habitat for hippos, that the charges were no longer in the public interest. This was not seen as vindication for the Greater Vancouver Zoo, nor a statement that charges were unjustified.^[2]

In 1997 two reports by Zoocheck Canada and UK veterinarian Samantha Lindley called on the Greater Vancouver Zoo to improve the conditions for the animals it holds, such as elephants and big cats. In 2003 few improvements had been made.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Website

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