The following was published in the National Post on Thursday, September 1, 2016. By: Massimo Bergamini The death earlier this year of Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo’s western lowland Silverback gorilla continues to enflame online passions, spur the creation of viral memes, and provide fodder for anti... Lire la suite
One can only hope that the announcement last week of a New Brunswick task force on exotic animals in response to the death of Noah and Connor Barthe — the two Campbellton boys asphyxiated last year by an African Rock python — will lead to a blueprint for other governments to follow. The tragedy ... Lire la suite
For a little while last week, exotic animals and zoos replaced roads and bridges as a municipal concern. It happened last Saturday, when mayors and councillors from across the country met in Niagara Falls for the Annual Conference of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), the national org... Lire la suite
It may not have had quite the same global media impact as the news in 1978 of the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby”, but the announcement yesterday by CAZA member African Lion Safari of Canada’s first giraffe born by artificial insemination is more evidence of the important, an... Lire la suite
Earlier this week, Hamilton City council amended its responsible animal ownership bylaw to require that anyone wanting to keep or exhibit prohibited animals be accredited by Canada’s Accredited Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA). With this decision, the City of Hamilton is following in the footsteps of a ... Lire la suite
This article first appeared in the Globe and Mail. Noted American economist Paul Romer once remarked that a crisis was a terrible thing to waste. By that he meant that every once in a while an event comes along that shakes up the existing order and brings situations into enough focus for fresh cons... Lire la suite
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