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Island Life - December 2010
It’s always a
consideration
Photo:The late Jack Corney pictured with a deadly Cobra
but you’ve got to
balance that with
the overall benefit
of zoos, a gene pool
and a showcase for
dying species.” She
adds: “I feel you
shouldn’t be doing
this job unless
you are constantly
aware of these
things. Besides,
our animals enjoy
care and expertise
lavished on them.”
It is three years
now since she took
the helm, her father
having bowed
out extremely
reluctantly following a stroke, and she
has overseen the zoo’s regeneration
following its television spotlight as
Tiger Island. The logical extension
is getting Islanders to embrace it
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as ‘their zoo’, rather than just an
attraction for visitors, hence the winter
weekend openings and special events
more special,” she says.
“This will be the Islanders’ time.”
For information about winter openings
like photography workshops. “It’s a
and events, contact Isle of Wight Zoo,
more intimate experience without the
Yaverland Seafront, Sandown, PO36
summer crowds, it makes it that much
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