SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s government is permanently closing the U.S. territory’s only zoo after years of suspected negligence, a lack of resources and deaths of animals.
The Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in the western coastal town of Mayaguez has remained closed since Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria battered the island in September 2017, with activists questioning the state of the zoo’s more than 300 animals and their future.
