The design of the Atlanta Zoo encourages destructive beliefs about wild animals in its visitors. The walkways and signage encourages destructive beliefs about wild animals. The walkways of the zoo are made in an easy to navigate way through the animal enclosures by region that they come from “Asian Forest”, “The Ford African Rain forest”, “African Plains” and a section named “KIDZone” that has other animals that are not from Asia or Africa like kangaroos and vultures. Each area of the zoo includes materials to make it feel like you are actually in that animals environment like the vegetation and the tarnished look of a third world country, but although it looks like that animals environment it does not feel like that environment somewhat of an optical illusion. Many of the animals like Tigers and Kangaroos are not from North America and are not built to handle Georgia’s climate. The beliefs that these walkways and enclosures cultivate is that the animals are comfortable in their environment/habitat. President and CEO Raymond B. King, says “We can look with pride into the rear view mirror at five years of consistent growth and increasing strength as an organization, but what’s most exciting is that our brightest days lie ahead of us…We’re moving forward with a historic expansion of the Zoo that will give new life to the Cyclorama building and create a beautiful new African savanna for our guests to enjoy.”, making it very apparent that the new African Savanna is meant for the enjoyment of the people and not for furthuring the well being of the animals. On the Zoo Atlanta site it still has Giant pandas described as “giant pandas are an endangered species facing serious threats from habitat fragmentation and habitat loss via deforestation.” when the National Geographic sites says that “Efforts to save the giant panda, a worldwide symbol of wildlife conservation for half a century, are paying off: The iconic black-and-white bear is no longer endangered, the international body for species protection said on Sunday.” ( Christine Dell’Amore, “Giant Pandas, Symbol of Conservation, Are No Longer Endangered”) which was posted on September 4th, 2016 and the date is now November 30th,2016. The habitat that the Zoo Atlanta has placed the Giant Pandas in also creates destructive beliefs about the animals. On the Zoo Atlanta site it describes the normal habitat as “broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, at elevations between 5,000 and 10,000 feet. Torrential rains or dense mist throughout the year characterizes these forests, often shrouded in heavy clouds”. Anyone who lives in/ has been to Atlanta (climate).

http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/9/714.full    http://ebusiness.avma.org/Files/ProductDownloads/2002_the_welfare_of_zoo_animals.pdf#page=17

Zoo Atlanta (FBED)

http://zooatlanta.org/home/trip_planner/map?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/zoo-atlanta (Desiderio, Francis. “Zoo Atlanta.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. 25 April 2016. Web. 29 November 2016.)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/pandas-vulnerable-endangered-species/

the Zoo closed 2015 with over 920,700 visitors, a growth that surpassed calendar year 2014 by more than 20,000. “We can look with pride into the rearview mirror at five years of consistent growth and increasing strength as an organization, but what’s most exciting is that our brightest days lie ahead of us,” King said. “We’re moving forward with a historic expansion of the Zoo that will give new life to the Cyclorama building and create a beautiful new African savanna for our guests to enjoy.” guests. President and CEO Raymond B. King