Photos: At $70,000 a month, feeding animals at the Audubon Institute proves challenging during COVID-19

in enviro •  4 years ago 

image.png

Feeding 15,000 animals a month can be challenging in the best of circumstances. Because of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Audubon Nature Institute estimates a roughly 80 percent decrease in attendance this year.

Interesting article and photos about the challenges of feeding animals in zoos during the shutdown. It makes sense, there's no money coming in right now for a lot of these zoos, so I'd imagine that they're looking all over to find revenue. I wonder how much of teh food that zoo animals eat is grown on the property, maybe this will force them to look into a more self sustainable model.....

Read the full story and see the photos here....
https://www.nola.com/multimedia/photos/collection_3f5d446e-028f-11eb-817b-d7a16b7db37a.html#1

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

Bitcoin not doing much again today, down a little

It will have its day, but it's not today

Gee, animals cost more than I thought....

I see that the cannabis stocks are lifeless

Sell the new the money calls

This post has received a 51.03 % upvote from @boomerang.