When promises mean very little
That Dubai Municipality will build a new zoo in Mirdif would have been met with delight. Over many years there have been complaints of the condition of Dubai Zoo and even its location now in the middle of a residential area. So the promise of a new zoo by 2008 is to be welcomed.
Or is it? Because those with long memories and equally long stay in Dubai will know a new zoo was first mooted by Dubai Municipality in 1986; then again in 1992; again in 2001 and again in 2003, when the first plan for a new zoo in Mirdif was proposed. The 2003 plan is very similar to the 2005 one just introduced, although the new zoo is one-third the size and one-third the cost..
The question now is, will Dubai Municipality once again shelve the new zoo plan, only for it to emerge yet again a couple of years down the road?
Respect for and proper treatment of animals is - as I understand it at least - required in Islam. Isn't this an Islamic country?
16 November, 2005
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I suppose we're going to have to hope that Dubailand includes a Zoo City, the biggest, most diverse and best-maintained zoo in the whole wide, world... EVER.
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