BendiNewsTest: UPDATED: Costa Rica wants to close its zoos and free all captive animals

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

UPDATED: Costa Rica wants to close its zoos and free all captive animals

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Costa Rica announced in 2013 that it will become the first country in the world to close down its zoos and free all captive animals. The small tropical nation is home to 4 percent of all known species, making it one of the most biodiverse places on earth. Treehugger reports that Costa Rica wants to close its two government-run zoos as part of an emergent new environmental consciousness that questions humanity’s dominion over all other creatures. But plans to move forward fell through when FUNDAZOO, the non-profit that runs Costa Rica’s zoos, sued to keep the zoos open for at least another decade.