The Jackson Zoo will soon reopen after the USDA issued an exhibitor's license to the city. WLBT reported:
The city of Jackson can now open the zoo on a permanent basis, after receiving its official exhibitor’s license from the USDA.Good luck.
“USDA did a virtual walk-through last week,” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said. “It’s approved 100 percent.”
The license was required for the city to reopen the Jackson Zoological Park and show animals to the public.
Previously, the city was operating the park with a temporary license.
USDA’s decision to grant the permit was one of the last major hurdles in the city’s efforts to bring on ZoOceanarium Group, the firm tapped by the administration to take over park management.
The city has been in talks with the Dubai-based firm since 2019. However, the group had held off on signing the contract until Jackson had its permanent license in place.
“There’s no excuse not to move things forward,” he said.
Lumumba said his team was meeting with ZoOceanarium officials on October 1 to schedule a final walk-through of the zoo, but he was not sure when the contract would be signed.
Meanwhile, new zoo management could mean some new attractions at the century-old park.
As part of the new management agreement, ZoOceanarium Group is planning to bring in an African lion and a second giraffe.
However, those animals likely won’t be brought in until the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.
“It’s all COVID-related," Lumumba said. “They’ll be brought in when it’s acceptable and permissible for the animals travel.”
“It’s not only humans, but animals are susceptible to the virus and complications from travel, too.”
The city received its license last week. The park reopened to the public in August, after the city received a temporary exhibitor’s permit. Article.
26 comments:
It must be really easy to get a zoo license-
Red ink here we come!
Great time to go to the zoo! Who doesn’t want to go to a bad part of town to maybe see some animals and maybe get sick. Just in time for winter too!
And folks will chomping at the bit to head over to hood and look at elephant while their car is being burglarized.
white ppl seethe while African Americans succeed
Yet another accomplishment of the leadership of Mayor Lumumba.
Cue the comments by the Madison KareNazi's and RanKKKin "Sons of the South" to weaponize the failures of their ancestors to attack Jackson's Mayor in 2020.
Sure is quiet around here. Wonder why? Did something happen today that has all of you flustered?
A leader wouldn't have wasted $7 million and counting on a failed enterprise such as a third world zoo.
The entire city of Jackson is a zoo. I remember what that zoo was like when I was a child in the 1970s. It was such a treat. A great way for a family to spend a day. They can't even keep the grass cut and the trash picked up there now. The train hasn't run in years. Nothing but convenience stores, liquor stores and check cashing places around the area now. (and of course abandoned dilapidated housing, old tires, couches, mattresses etc...) The people who live there made it like this... people from outside of the area had nothing to do with it.
Success isn't getting a zoo opened. Success is getting people to come there, actually making money, and keeping animals from getting killed by rabid dogs.
Yet he stands by and says & does nothing about the murders occurring around that area.
12:11 -- accomplishment?
Spending hundreds of thousands of (other people's) dollars to be able to open a facility that is no longer an attraction is an accomplishment?
Zoos - except for those exceptional ones that spend millions every year to maintain their position - are as much of an attraction as drive-in movies and the skating rinks.
Chocke may be able to sign a contract with this organization that has never operated a zoo before - but I will bet a dollar to your donut hole that if there is finally a contract it will require the city to pay big bucks to them for their 'services'. So we the citizens give the improved property to a foreign company and pay them to operate it, all while the number of visitors decrease every year.
Well, I guess as I write this we have been and continue to do this with JPS - pay more and more of other people's money (tax revenue) to provide a failing service to a dwindling population.
while I can see the comparison I think calling the possible opening of the zoo as an 'accomplishment' is the same as calling the current condition of our public school system an accomplishment. After all, they have been able to rename a couple of those school buildings during this term and that is certainly an accomplishment. Too bad educating the kids was not given the same priority.
I live in Madison, but we love the zoo. It is a bit nervewracking driving there, but once you turn in, I always feel safe. The addition of a lion will be a great thing!
I thought the City of Jackson already had a license?!
To bout fed up...
The Jackson zoo doesn’t have an elephant. But Im pretty sure you can still get your car burglarized.
Good for Jackson. If you don't live there, why are you obsessed with the place?
"Madison KareNazi's" ?
"weaponize the failures of their ancestors" ?
OK 12:11 PM, it's time to put the pipe down and take a nap.
Who knows Jackson will perpetually issue bonds to keep this dumpsterfire roaring.
11:45 AM
It will succeed when it turns a profit.
12:11 PM
Exhibit A of a BLM supporter.
Not sure the prices, whatever they are and for what is there, will be worth it.
Give it 2 years & when the city gets tired of giving money to keep the zoo open, than it will close again.
Meanwhile, there will be more people visiting the McClain Restaurant & Safari on Holly Bush Rd. in Rankin county than the Zoo.
" the USDA issued ..."
Dang, I thought the USDA made sure chicken plants and dairy farms followed the rules.
I had no idea they controlled monkeys, elephants, Giraffes and such.
Now for the potholes. Do they need a license to work on those?
1:52, feral, not rabid. Not all killer feral dogs have rabies.
I gotta say, there are a lot of comical comments here. It always brings a smile to my face to read some of these. And they are actually telling the truth! So how can any of the comments be racist towards the actions of Jackson and it’s so called mayor?
I grew up in Jackson and have fond memories of the zoo. I hope it succeeds.
I love going out to the zoo on weekdays. It's so nice and relaxing. Sometimes I just sit and read a book.
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