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Article: Officials at National Zoo question funding: Long-term needs could suffer,; zoo director says
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 29, 2003
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WASHINGTON - National Zoo director Lucy Spelman told a panel
investigating animal deaths that the nation's only federally
supported animal park is struggling with "failed facilities," aging
animals, a shrinking staff and insufficient funding.
Spelman, who became director three years ago, listed her
priorities as "animals, funding, staff and facilities." She said on
Wednesday the amount of money the zoo can generate is limited because
it doesn't charge admission and gets 70 percent of its support from
the federal government.
"There's not enough money on a day-to-day basis and for long-term
needs," she told a panel of experts appointed by the National Academy
of Sciences at the behest of ...