The Madness Of Monarto Zoo

The South Australian Monarto Zoo has announced that it plans tobuy an additional 450 hectares of land, which will make it theworld’s largest open-range zoo. Nothing strange about that, butwhat is strange is the Zoo’s plans for the 450 hectares.Heather Caddick, President of the Royal Zoological Society ofSouth Australia, said that the zoo would be “an authenticAfrican wildlife experience..with free roaming Serengetianimals.” This bizarre concept is being supported by theSouth Australian Tourism Commission.You have to wonder what is in the water in South Australia.People go to Africa for an authentic African wildlife experience.Miss Caddick acknowledged that Australia had lost 27% of our nativewildlife to extinction in the last thirty years. Surely the 450hectares could be put to better use protecting the wildlife we haveleft rather than hoping to attract international tourists to SouthAustralia rather than Africa.Unfortunately for South Australian taxpayers this is not anApril Fool’s Day joke. Even scarier is the fact that peopleare being paid to come up with such stupid ideas. What’snext? Will the South Australian government transport the entireNetherlands just to take advantage of the liberal drug laws? Ohwait, we’ve already got a place like that, it’s calledCanberra.

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