The View From the Castle: The growing trend among zoos to become breeding farms for endangered species may save animals--as well as zoos themselves

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Summary

Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley expresses concern over the changing roles of zoos, which now find it necessary to breed their specimens. However, without proper funds and facilities, Ripley fears that the rare species the zoos maintain will die out, and so will the zoos themselves.

Subject

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

Smithsonian Vol. 5, no. 2 (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

May 1974

Topic

  • Conservation and restoration
  • Zoos
  • Endangered ecosystems
  • Preservation
  • Castle View
  • Endangered species

Physical description

p. 4

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