Hello everyone!

I was wondering if I may get your input on Browse.

What do all of your Zoos do to obtain browse?

Do you grow it or buy it.?

Or do you do both?

If you do grow it: who is in charge of it, how many staff members are involved.?

 

The Toronto Zoo has had the good fortune of having large rural areas around it.  Over the last 30 years we used these areas to obtain our browse.  Due to urbanization of these areas we have lost that now.  We have also browsed the large site we sit on.  But this is not enough to meet the demands. 

The Horticulture Department at the Toronto Zoo is looking to build Browse Gardens around 3 of our main pavilions.  These will accommodate key species within each building.

But we will have to do much more.

 

So please will you share with me how each of your Zoos accommodates their animal collections.

 

Thank you in advance,

Clare Wharton

Toronto Zoo.