The Los Angeles Zoo envisions one day having mountain lions and grizzlies on display and possibly adding some California condors, North America’s largest land bird, which the zoo’s breeding program has helped save from extinction.
Those exhibits are ambitious ideas in the sweeping Los Angeles Zoo Vision Plan, which aims to rebuild many old, outdated exhibits and create new ones over 18 years. Some of those big ideas may not be feasible, but the zoo, which sits on 133 acres in Griffith Park, is smart to be planning its vision of the future now.
In the zoo’s latest plan, gone are the gimmicky aerial tram and vineyard that spurred so much controversy in a previous 2021 plan, which was decried as the zoo’s attempt to style itself as an amusement park.
