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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Zoo: Relocation to Chickland not feasible

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2151 days ago
20190909
Young lions at the Emperor Valley Zoo.

Young lions at the Emperor Valley Zoo.

The Zo­o­log­i­cal So­ci­ety says it is not fea­si­ble to re­lo­cate the zoo re­lo­cat­ed to Chick­land in Cen­tral Trinidad af­ter calls have been made for it to do so.

In a state­ment is­sued on Mon­day, the Zoo said that the site was al­ready con­sid­ered and deemed un­suit­able for this pur­pose when the is­sue first arose sev­er­al years ago.

"Cab­i­net had rec­om­mend­ed that a de­tailed fea­si­bil­i­ty study be done and this was com­plet­ed in April 2009 by Lee Young and Part­ners, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Tourism. The site was not rec­om­mend­ed for the es­tab­lish­ment of a Zo­o­log­i­cal Park," the state­ment by the Zoo said.

It added, "Fol­low­ing this, the ZSTT in late 2009 ac­cept­ed an of­fer from a mem­ber of the ZSTT joint­ly with the com­mu­ni­ty-based Man­a­tee Con­ser­va­tion Trust of a 360-acre par­cel of agri­cul­tur­al land in Brig­and Hill, Man­zanil­la for an off­site fa­cil­i­ty. This Brig­and Hill fa­cil­i­ty is op­er­a­tional and serves to house sur­plus an­i­mals from the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo, seized and con­fis­cat­ed an­i­mals from the il­le­gal wildlife trade and oth­er an­i­mals in need of re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion."

It says the fa­cil­i­ty pro­vides food sup­plies for the zoo an­i­mals as the fa­cil­i­ty is plant­ed with bear­ing fruit trees and con­tains lakes with fresh­wa­ter fish.

Calls for the zoo's re­lo­ca­tion came af­ter birds and a kan­ga­roo died the days fol­low­ing the Au­gust 31st In­de­pen­dence Day fire­works dis­play at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah.


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