Orangutan/Panda Outrage Will Continue Indefinitely - Repost from 3.2.25

Apologies to returning readers, for this repost.  I wish I could Pin Posts, but I've tried over the years to no avail.  Now, as I concentrate on highlighting the Orangutans plight, and how it is directly connected to Zoo Director Tanya Peterson's selfish and irresponsible push to bring in Pandas, I think it's necessary.  I have abandoned all blog notes that don't pertain to this issue point.  There's a decent amount that have circled my mind in recent days.  As I transfer them from various places, they seem to be sorting themselves and dividing into posts that I think should have a certain flow, especially for new readers.  

Original Post - Sunday March 2, 2025...

Here I am again, the last day of my block of IN days, pushing myself to publish at least some of my thoughts.  After two days of peace, I'm attempting to reduce drafts by sorting so many words from my notes, into posts that flow.  

I wanted this next post to be an update on non-Zoo grounds issues I've posted about in recent times, so I can be done with those.  But, as I lay here, ready for a nap before the Oscars, my thoughts are only about Our Orangutans, and how the Panda Plan relates to the complete disrespect, lack of care, and frankly the middle finger Director Tanya Peterson has shown them since the first day they got here, six years ago.  The horror and sadness is something that I have never been able to shake, and every time I hear about Pandas, my blood boils.

So, I will publish the following now, and again after that update post, as in this moment, the Orangutan/Panda Outrage is all I think I might want to post about for the foreseeable future.

Months ago I wrote that I wanted to wean myself from blogging, from not reacting to everything.  I feel like I'm able to do that for the most part, because while it may not seem like it, I am focused on one thing.  

The last three paragraphs in my previous post, sum it up...

> And here we now are, almost six years after the Orangutans arrival.  Not one thing has been done for them.  They continue to languish on two cluttered concrete islands, and still spend most of their time in the caged tubes, looking down at the Chimpanzees in their spacious netted yard.  No fundraising was ever done for them.  Not before or since their arrival.  YET, Director Peterson has now gone into overdrive to raise funds for Pandas.  AND her Panda Plan includes displacing the Lions from the Lion House (one of the cornerstone structures since the Zoo's opening over ninety years ago),  AND building a new Lion enclosure.  WHILE the Orangutans sit and wait.  Unfortunately, under Tanya Peterson's Direction, they will wait forever.

It's been very clear to those really watching, that Director Tanya Peterson, does not care about or respect the non-Human Beings that call Our Zoo home.  And, it is certainly apparent that she cares the least for Our Great Apes.

The Panda Plan needs to Stop.  Funding needs to materialize for the Orangutans.  They need a new home built, Not Lions.  And certainly not Pandas. <

From the first moment I saw the Orangutans contained in the caged tubes of the skytrails,  my soul wept for them.  I have witnessed the evilness of Director Tanya Peterson too many times.  Her lack of empathy and compassion, outrages me.  It is outrageous that after all she has done to Our Zoo and our innocent Animal Residents, that she is allowed to continue as Director.  

I could go on and on, and I will, but for the purpose of this post I will leave it with this for now.  Next month it will have been six years since the Orangutans arrived.  Six years that I have shed tears for Ollie and Amoi (Orangutans) and the damage Tanya Peterson has caused them.  I will continue to be a voice for them in this blog, until they get a new home built for them.  

This shameful example of Tanya Peterson's lack of care, came up in conversation this past week. I'll leave you with this f**ked-up post by Peterson, who is making a social distancing joke, about Our Orangutans, who she kept in these caged tubes for eight months straight. 

There is nothing " norm" about not providing 

a designated home for Beings in your care. 

Do not ever forget this.  The face of Tanya Peterson laughing behind her mask, or the faces of Amoi and Ollie, who were stuck in caged tubes for the majority of two years.

The above was originally published in a post from December 31, 2020.  It's worth a read, as it also contains the disgrace of Peterson using Lemur Maki's kidnapping to ask for donations for the Madagascar Debacle, under the guise of it being for Maki's new home.  A complete untruth.  

The woman is unconscionable.

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2020/12/lifting-some-weights-on-this-last-eve.html

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Wrap-Updates - The Fails, The Neglect And The Lies

In the last couple months, I've given alot of attention in posts to a few issue points that I want to update on and hopefully that will be a wrap on all but one.  I know I've said similar about letting go of posting about all the Zoo Irks, and I think I've made progress.  These are the reoccurring things I've been on lately, that I'm hoping to "close the case" on.  A couple of these are issues that aren't directly related to the Zoo, but in my mind are connected to the whole lack of care situation in some way.

As we head into brighter days, with the time change and warmer weather upon us, I'm setting-up to unclutter alot of overwhelm from my mind and surroundings.  I can't be tied to tiring old issues that Director Tanya Peterson, the Zoological Society, RecPark, and others, cause our Zoo, it's Residents and our Park Animals with their negligence, lack of care, and laziness.

*Jonesy's Memorial

I last posted about this Valentine's Day, noting that a week after his passing, Jonesy still had no Memorial sign.  The following week, there finally was a sign, but still no container for flowers, which were welcomed via the Zoo's Twitter post. 

I was disappointed in the photo.  It cut off the top of his crown, and also didn't even look much like him.  For me, the text was too short and sterile. There were no personal notations and no mention of his two offspring, or that he lived here with his half-sister Zura.

Last week, I saw someone had found a way to leave flowers, squeezing a small bouquet between the metal rods on the photo stand.  It's unfortunate there was still no container, so no water, not allowing for the flowers to last.  Disrespectful in my opinion to Jonesy and the person who brought them.

Why this has been an issue for me... The fail to provide a container, lends to disregard of the Zoo Community who was invited to show their care for Jonesy.  Likewise, no place for cards and/or drawings either, both in addition to flowers were also noted as "welcome to leave".

Related Post:

Think About The Things You Love This Valentine's Day

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2025/02/think-about-things-you-love-this.html

*The Activists

I have been told both by Zoo Staff and a random person who responded to a comment I made on an In Defense of Animals Twitter post, that latching onto tragic events to push their agendas is the MO of Activists.

I can't let go of how disgusting the Activists are to be keeping up their mantra, and using Jonesy's passing to do so.  I had an interaction with IDA on Twitter, so regardless of whether they've seen what I've posted in my blog, they know what they've done, but they don't care. 

They have lost all credibility to their faux stance that they care about the Animals or the Zoo.  Their personal agenda is all they care about.

Why this has been an issue for me... I think their agendas are damaging to the Zoo.  Seeking changes and helping the Zoo thrive should be the course of efforts for anyone claiming to care.

Related Post: 

The Activist Completely Disrespects Gorilla's Passing

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2025/02/wow-activist-completely-disrespects.html

*Coyotes

Since my post July 5, 2024, following the  Botanical Garden Coyote Event, I have written many about it through to November 2.  I well documented the horrific event, highlighting the facts pertaining to the intention by officials to exterminate the whole family and the murder of a four month old Pup.  As well, the lies told by California Dept of Fish and Wildlife point person, Patrick Foy, and supported by creative wording from RecPark spokesperson, Tamara Aparton.

After the KGO News investigation of these Murders and Lies, I still felt there has been no justice for the innocent Coyote Pup whose life was ended for no reason. 

I had it on my to-do list to pose questions to Patrick Foy.  I didn't expect an answer, as CDFW ignored specific questioning from KGO reporter Dan Noyes.  The creative narrative continued, and no one took responsibility.  Only recently did I inquire to contact Foy, and was told he retired, but the responder Steve Gonzalez invited me to direct my questions to him, which I did...

"Thank you for your reply and invite to ask questions, regarding the Coyote event last June at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

I was very disturbed by how the Coyote's and the truth were handled.

My questions to Foy would have been,...

*Why was it a mass murder of all Coyotes on sight?

*Why not tranquilize, swab, and tag?

*Why was a Pup murdered, when there is no way the Pup was the perpetrator?

Considering he knew very well there was an active Den AND there was at least one Pup,...

*Why did he lie to Media and say there was NO active Dens?

*Why did he lie to Media and say there was NO Coyote protecting Pups?

Thank you,..."

Not surprising, I have not received a reply.  I guarantee he didn't liked my questions.  That's ok, they needed to be asked and documented.

If I had received a reply, my follow-up would have been to question, Why the Pup was not tranquilized and turned over to a rescue/rehab facility, to either be raised for release back to wild or a captive home found?

I didn't initially research facility data, but knew a Coyote named Sierra who I visited for several years, at the San Mateo facility, CuriOdyssey.  So, I knew saving that Pup's life was an option.  They just didn't care.

https://curiodyssey.org/blog/a-tribute-to-our-coyote-sierra/

Recently, I realized I hadn't been getting Facebook posts from a friend's Rescue here in The City.  I scrolled through photos, and saw Coyotes.  Her Rescue Yggdrasil, and SFRomp, have both facilitated transfers to appropriate facilities to help young Coyotes in need.  Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue in Petaluma, took in seven Coyote Pups last summer.  Coincidentally just weeks after CDFW Murdered the one at the Botanical Garden. That little four month old girl, could have possibly been raised in their pack and released back into the wild.  

The actions of CDFW gunmen were horrifying, barbaric and unnecessary.  The lies are shameful.  All have left me with no confidence that there is caring protocols or transparency of incidents, to the public, by any government entity, state or local.

*Bison Sprinklers 

I've been on this disgrace for many years and won't stop until the Bison Paddock Meadow is lush and green with edible grazing vegetation year-round.  Meaning, No dried out brown bullshit during non-rain season.  

Despite never admitting to the sprinkler negligence, in the wake of the storm that took down fencing on three sides of the enclosure, the RecPark seemingly did some initial puttering about with what looks like the irrigation system.  That work seems to have stalled, as I haven't seen any attention to it in a couple months.

So, this will be one issue I'll be following up on as the rain stops and summer approaches.

Why this has been an issue for me...  Bison are grazing Animals.  It is part of their natural behavior to graze on and off throughout the day.  That grazing also provides a supplement to their Zoo diet.  Having access to plentiful and appropriate greenery, is part of their Well-being.

Related Post:

SF RecPark Knowingly Lets Bison Meadow Dry Out, Preventing Grazing Animals From Grazing

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2024/10/sf-recpark-knowingly-lets-bison-meadow.html

*Bison Fence

As of last Wednesday, there was work being done to repair the east fencing.  Yesterday morning (Monday), the east fence didn't look done, and the front was still in shambles, held together with Zip Ties.  Note, the start of repair, was over two months after the damage.  The front fence had no trees on it that needed to be cleared, it was just left that way.  At the very least the front which borders JFK, should have been fixed immediately.   

If the RecPark had cared enough about the Bison to keep the sprinklers working consistently, I may not have such a judgemental reaction to the fence.  But their lack of care for years to the Bison's home and their responsibility to Zoo oversight, has voided me cutting them any slack.

Correspondence with a RecPark point person for this issue was useless, as most of what I got was illusions and carefully worded BS.  And then no reply at all.

Why this has been an issue for me... In my opinion, this enclosure houses live Beings and should have been a priority to repair.  Not doing so lends to the typical lack of care and negligent responsibility shown to the Bison Paddock by the RecPark for too many years.  

Bison Fence Saga - Last Update, Until It's Not

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2025/02/bison-fence-saga-last-update-until-its.html

*Trash Can

This receptacle has been damaged for at least two months. Dept of Public Works, has gotten four Service Requests, and as of yesterday, this broken-down shit box was still there. 

Why this has been an issue for me...  With the tiring sight and documentation of the broken-down perimeter fence at the Zoo, I'm tired of seeing the front of the Zoo look like shit.

Why Do City Departments Give Our Zoo The Middle Finger?

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-do-city-departments-give-our-zoo.html

*Traffic Barrels

A couple weeks ago, fed-up with No Action regarding the Trash Can, I finally photo'd this cluster-fuck I've been seeing for years leading to the entrance to the Zoo's back lot.

Reported it to SF311.  They made a Service Request, but unlike other reports there was no time frame given.  But, they did note this was a combined effort of DPW and RecPark.  So, further neglect by RecPark to an area related to the Zoo.  They can't be bothered with the Zoo, yet they're all up in the Closing Great Highway bullshit.

... Ok now, I'm just angry ranting.  Good thing I'm done.

Good Grief, City Workers Can't Find The Can - What A Joke

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2025/02/good-grief-city-workers-cant-find-can.html

Oh wait, I got one more thing to add.  While I'm complaining about the lack of attention the Bison and outside of Zoo, due to City entity negligence, what's Zoo Director Tanya Peterson doing?  Big Fat Nothing, except concentrating on Pandas to further her mis-guided notion of how to manage Our Zoo.

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Orangutan/Panda Outrage Will Continue Indefinitely

Here I am again, the last day of my block of IN days, pushing myself to publish at least some of my thoughts.  After two days of peace, I'm attempting to reduce drafts by sorting so many words from my notes, into posts that flow.  

I wanted this next post to be an update on non-Zoo grounds issues I've posted about in recent times, so I can be done with those.  But, as I lay here, ready for a nap before the Oscars, my thoughts are only about Our Orangutans, and how the Panda Plan relates to the complete disrespect, lack of care, and frankly the middle finger Director Tanya Peterson has shown them since the first day they got here, six years ago.  The horror and sadness is something that I have never been able to shake, and every time I hear about Pandas, my blood boils.

So, I will publish the following now, and again after that update post, as in this moment, the Orangutan/Panda Outrage is all I think I might want to post about for the foreseeable future.

Months ago I wrote that I wanted to wean myself from blogging, from not reacting to everything.  I feel like I'm able to do that for the most part, because while it may not seem like it, I am focused on one thing.  

The last three paragraphs in my previous post, sum it up...

> And here we now are, almost six years after the Orangutans arrival.  Not one thing has been done for them.  They continue to languish on two cluttered concrete islands, and still spend most of their time in the caged tubes, looking down at the Chimpanzees in their spacious netted yard.  No fundraising was ever done for them.  Not before or since their arrival.  YET, Director Peterson has now gone into overdrive to raise funds for Pandas.  AND her Panda Plan includes displacing the Lions from the Lion House (one of the cornerstone structures since the Zoo's opening over ninety years ago),  AND building a new Lion enclosure.  WHILE the Orangutans sit and wait.  Unfortunately, under Tanya Peterson's Direction, they will wait forever.

It's been very clear to those really watching, that Director Tanya Peterson, does not care about or respect the non-Human Beings that call Our Zoo home.  And, it is certainly apparent that she cares the least for Our Great Apes.

The Panda Plan needs to Stop.  Funding needs to materialize for the Orangutans.  They need a new home built, Not Lions.  And certainly not Pandas. <

From the first moment I saw the Orangutans contained in the caged tubes of the skytrails,  my soul wept for them.  I have witnessed the evilness of Director Tanya Peterson too many times.  Her lack of empathy and compassion, outrages me.  It is outrageous that after all she has done to Our Zoo and our innocent Animal Residents, that she is allowed to continue as Director.  

I could go on and on, and I will, but for the purpose of this post I will leave it with this for now.  Next month it will have been six years since the Orangutans arrived.  Six years that I have shed tears for Ollie and Amoi (Orangutans) and the damage Tanya Peterson has caused them.  I will continue to be a voice for them in this blog, until they get a new home built for them.  

This shameful example of Tanya Peterson's lack of care, came up in conversation this past week. I'll leave you with this f**ked-up post by Peterson, who is making a social distancing joke, about Our Orangutans, who she kept in these caged tubes for eight months straight. 

There is nothing " norm" about not providing 

a designated home for Beings in your care. 

Do not ever forget this.  The face of Tanya Peterson laughing behind her mask, or the faces of Amoi and Ollie, who were stuck in caged tubes for the majority of two years.

The above was originally published in a post from December 31, 2020.  It's worth a read, as it also contains the disgrace of Peterson using Lemur Maki's kidnapping to ask for donations for the Madagascar Debacle, under the guise of it being for Maki's new home.  A complete untruth.  

The woman is unconscionable.

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2020/12/lifting-some-weights-on-this-last-eve.html

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February 24, 2015 - A Day In Zoo History & It's Connection To Today

Most years, I remember one of these days in February, the 24th, 25th or 26th.  This year, with so much on my mind, it took a Facebook Memory to remind me. That Memory showed up as I sat down to dinner last night.  I wanted to write this post timely to that date, but exhausted from the day, I slept through the alarm I set to publish before midnight.  Just waking-up, it's now 2:30a and words are flowing.

Ten years ago, Our three senior Chimpanzees, were at risk of losing their home of over forty-five years, at the hands of Zoo Director Tanya Peterson.  

For those who are new to this cruel and evil offense by Peterson, I'll give a brief (hopefully) synopsis.  

For some, this whole post will surely mostly be a rehash, but I feel what almost happened to Our Chimps is something that should never be forgotten.  An offense that also relates to the plight of Our Orangutans, and the irresponsible attempt to bring Pandas to Our Zoo.  Overall instances of mismanagement, disrespect to the Animals, and lack of care, by Tanya Peterson.

In 1968, ten year old wild born Cobby, was dropped off at the Zoo, after his owner was done using him in entertainment.  In 1970, Minnie and Maggie, estimated at approximately one year old, arrived at the Zoo, via a company who procured Animals from the wild and sold them.  Kidnapped from their Mama's, who may have been slaughtered during the event, their journey from Africa left them at the Zoo.  Together they lived in the Zoo's Triple Grotto enclosure with Cobby and female Tallulah, a former pet, who joined Cobby in 1969, for the next forty-five years. 

In 2013, after the passing of Tallulah, unbeknownst to me, the AZA's (Association of Zoos and Aquariums) Chimpanzee Species Survival Plan (SSP), had been in contact, expressing concern for our troop size, that was now down to three.  Understandable,  as Cobby, Maggie and Minnie, were all seniors, and another loss would leave just two.  Allegedly, the Zoo tried to acquire another Chimp from the SSP, but was refused because of the state of the enclosure.  Triple Grotto was built in the mid-60's, and had seen no upgrade since the 80's, when grass was added to the concrete islands, and climbing structures built by then Keepers. In 1997, Cobby, Tallulah, Minnie and Maggie, became the literal "poster children" for a Bond of $47 million, that was put on the ballot that year.  It was passed by voters, yet the Chimpanzees never got the new home that was main selling point of the deal.

Sometime in 2014, Peterson had decided the Chimps had to go.  She refused to fundraise for a new home for them to be built, choosing to instead send them packing from their longtime home and the only home Minnie and Maggie had ever known.  The Zoo's longest and oldest Residents were being kicked out. 

During a visit the week of January 26, a Keeper came and stood beside me as I watched the Chimpanzees.  Knowing me well, and my love for these Friends I grew-up with he said, "You know she's sending them away?"  As a chill came over me, he continued, "What are you going to do about it?"  I said, "They aren't leaving on my fucking watch!"

I had been documenting Zoo mismanagement for four years at that point.  I tried to crusade for Andean Bear Wishbone, to get soft surfaces in 2010, but still new to Zoo bullshit, I didn't know the routes to take to succeed in that.  It pains me, as he lost his life to his bones breaking down from living exclusively on concrete.  I'm so sorry Wishy.  

When I heard about the Chimps, I went home that night and started a dedicated Blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Petition.  I started writing posts and letters, making memes and videos.  Anything I could think of to gain awareness.  At the time, I hadn't thought of media, but thankfully a friend had a contact at KGO News.  Reporter Dan Noyes took my story, and it was the awareness created by his platform, that Saved Our Chimpanzees.  His I-Team report aired Tuesday February 24, 2015.  At Thursday's Joint Zoo Meeting, Director Peterson announced The Chimps were staying!  I just got a chill as I wrote that, and tears are flowing.  It's still emotional for me to think about that journey and specifically, what could have happened to Our Precious Chimps, if Peterson's plan had been successful.  

I don't think the public fully understands the horrors Director Tanya Peterson is capable of.  I document her mismanagement, and her offences here, but it only reaches so far.  In the case of the Chimps, she tried to keep it secret, even denying her plan to kick them out.  She continued her untruths at the Meeting, saying after visiting prospective new homes, "we (she)" had decided not to send them away.  That is a flat-out lie, as I personally heard the transfer cages being built the week before.  Thankfully those babies never had to step foot in those cages, and take a journey that one longtime staffer said, "Would have killed them".

In the two years following the "Save", the promise for a new home, seemed questionable.  Now, I would call it possibly one of Peterson's Zoo-lusions, as since then I have seen and heard her spin too many illusions, in an attempt to put forth faux self-grandeur, to mask her short-comings.  During those two years, the Zoo acquired and built new homes for Sifakas (2016) and Wolves (2016), two species that were not even current residents.  The Chimps sat in Triple Grotto and waited.  And waited.  They waited Peterson out!  I personally think she was stalling, til there was only two left and she could then be justified in sending them away.  Thankfully Cobby, Maggie and Minnie gave her the middle finger, and on Thanksgiving Day 2018, they entered their new Dayroom.  It was a beautiful thing for me to witness and more important for them to experience.

Tanya Peterson's disregard for the Needs of Our Zoo, specifically the Needs of the Animals, is apparent to everyone who cares.  She has been calculating in her disrespect for current residents, in favor of shiny new toys since the start of her reign.  In the two years prior to the Chimpanzee event, when she knew their security at the Zoo was at risk, she acquired and built new enclosures for the Komodo Dragon (2013) and Red Panda (2014).  Unfortunately her new toys for 2019, two Orangutans didn't get the respect of a new home, or any dedicated enclosure.  Zoo Director Peterson kept the Orangutans living in caged tubes for eight months straight, with random access to the Chimps new yard for two years, before dumping them in Triple Grotto, the ancient enclosure deemed unacceptable for Chimpanzees.

And here we now are, almost six years after the Orangutans arrival.  Not one thing has been done for them.  They continue to languish on two cluttered concrete islands, and still spend most of their time in the caged tubes, looking down at the Chimpanzees in their spacious netted yard.  No fundraising was ever done for them.  Not before or since their arrival.  YET, Director Peterson has now gone into overdrive to raise funds for Pandas.  AND her Panda Plan includes displacing the Lions from the Lion House (one of the cornerstone structures since the Zoo's opening over ninety years ago),  AND building a new Lion enclosure.  WHILE the Orangutans sit and wait.  Unfortunately, under Tanya Peterson's Direction, they will wait forever.

It's been very clear to those really watching, that Director Tanya Peterson, does not care about or respect the non-Human Beings that call Our Zoo home.  And, it is certainly apparent that she cares the least for Our Great Apes.

The Panda Plan needs to Stop.  Funding needs to materialize for the Orangutans.  They need a new home built, Not Lions.  And certainly not Pandas.

To view the KGO News Story:

*I-TEAM: San Francisco Zoo on verge of losing 3 elderly Chimpanzees

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-zoo-i-team-dan-noyes-elderly-chimpanzees/533519/

*I-TEAM: Officials say elderly Chimps will stay at San Francisco Zoo

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-zoo-i-team-dan-noyes-elderly-chimpanzees/536427/

For more information...

*On Our Chimps story, visit my blog, Save San Francisco Zoo Chimps ...

savesfzoochimps.blogspot.com 

*On the plight of Our Orangutans, search this blog using keyword "Orangutans"

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I used to use (search) labels, but too often forget.  I started noting "Hot Topic" in title, but fell lax on that.  Now I'm just going to add labels, keywords, etc., here at the bottom with hashtags.  Does it help in searches, who knows.

#SanFrancisco , #SanFranciscoZoo , #Zoos #SanFranciscoZoologicalSociety , #SanFranciscoZooDirectorTanyaPeterson , #SanFranciscoRecreationAndParksDept , #SanFranciscoMayorLondonBreed #SanFranciscoMayorDanielLurie,

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The Activist Guy Claims "Eyes On Zoo Since 2008", I Call Bullshit!

The other day I was alerted to another post made by the Activist guy.  I wasn't planning on writing a reaction post, but as I lay here about to work on some Zoo stuff, my mind has revisited one thing he wrote.  

The catalyst for his post involved interactions he's had with Zoo Officials regarding the employment status of the Zoo's "Deputy Director and VP of HR" Vitus Leung.  I'm not going to get into the Where's Vitus debate, but something else irked me, and this isn't a new irk.  In fact just last week, I voiced it in a conversation with a Staffer. ... In this guy's post he states in a letter to Zoo Board Chair, "I've had my eyes on SF Zoo since 2008".

I'm sorry but I call bullshit.  Where was this guy...

In 2010 when the Spectacle Bears were living exclusively on concrete that was breaking down their bones?  Leaving our male with such severe bone issues, that while otherwise healthy, he lost his life because he couldn't walk.

In 2013 when the Zoo acquired the first Komodo Dragon, and kept him in a Terrarium until he grew so big he couldn't turn around?  And ended up with a curious bone deformity?  That eventually lead to his passing.

In 2014 when the infant Gorilla was killed?  He sure likes to keep dragging her death into his current agenda.  

In 2015 when the Chimpanzees were slated to be kicked out of their home, and sent to an amusement park?

In 2019 when the Orangutans arrived to no dedicated home and were living in the overhead caged tubes?  Did he ever have his eyes on that?  Because I stood there several times a week crying at their confinement.

So, I ask this guy, What exactly have you had your eyes on the last sixteen years?  I'm not trying to be a bitch, but I'd like to know, because I've had my eyes and ears on the Zoo and ain't seen or heard anything out of you during that time frame.  How many Joint Zoo Meetings did you go to between 2008-2023?

The Zoo has needed help since Tanya Peterson became Director in July 2008.  You jumped.on the bandwagon last year when the Zoo was in the news, finally under scrutiny for mismanagement, and for the insanity of acquiring Pandas.  You were nowhere before that.  That media attention, provided a forum for you and other Anti-Zoo Zealots to further your personal agendas.  None of which had anything to do with helping better the Zoo.  Only recently have you seemingly altered your "intentions" to seek change to better the Zoo.  Yet those intentions are also still woven in an Anti-Zoo (format) agenda.  

While I appreciate all voices to help seek change for Our Zoo, it's offensive for you to put forth such nonsense that you have actively been caring about the Zoo and it's Residents for the last sixteen years.

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I used to use (search) labels, but too often forget.  I started noting "Hot Topic" in title, but fell lax on that.  Now I'm just going to add labels, keywords, etc., here at the bottom with hashtags.  Does it help in searches, who knows. 

#SanFrancisco , #SanFranciscoZoo , #Zoos #SanFranciscoZoologicalSociety , #SanFranciscoZooDirectorTanyaPeterson , #SanFranciscoRecreationAndParksDept , #SanFranciscoMayorLondonBreed ,

#SanFranciscoMayorDanielLurie

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Good Grief, City Workers Can't Find The Can - What A Joke!

It's 5a and I just woke up.  I'm seriously about to lose my mind.  One of the things that really irks me is incompetence.  If someone can't do something, I guess we can chalk it up to just being human, but if you can't do the something you're getting paid to do, that's the irk!

If you read my previous post, you know that I contacted DPW (Dept of Public Works) via SF311 on Twitter, in regard to a broken down trash can outside the Zoo entrance.  Huge ground mess and eyesore.  The mess is not the first time, so once again, I requested it be removed, as it adds to the downtrodden appearance of Our Zoo.  I was told it was under twenty day review.  After two weeks, I complained that trash is still being picked up, and that it was lazy to not at least clean the ground mess.  Reply was, should be cleaned in three days.  No change as of last Wednesday, the twenty-second day.  

After documenting this in a post Sunday, I had planned to monitor it out of disgust, but not waste time or energy posting about it.  Then, yesterday as I was on my way home, northbound Great Highway from Skyline, the state of traffic barrier barrels that are placed between the lanes and the split that leads to the Zoo's parking lot, pissed me off.  I've been shaking my head at these barrels for at least a year, but they've probably been broken down for years, I just never monitored the time frame.  Now, with the trash can negligence,  I've added this to my list of projects.  

Again people are probably like, this old gal needs a life lol!  You know, complaining about these things are not how I want to spend the time in my life, but after monitoring all the Zoo bullshit for going on seventeen years, I'm just really tired of No One Caring about Our Zoo, inside and out.

These small issues on the outside of the Zoo may not have much weight against the big issues inside the Zoo, but they are related.  They also add another page in the book of Mismanagement of Our Zoo by Director Tanya Peterson, and the Zoological Society.  The Perimeter Fence, the Trash Can, these Barrier Barrels, none of these things should have been neglected.  At first sight of damage, they should have been attended to, not after long-term deterioration.  Appearance not only matters, but it shows care, and if care from the outside is not shown, what does that say about management care inside?  Alot obviously.

I started documenting the perimeter fence in 2020, but it had been broken down for many, many years, and still is.  Director Peterson and Society Members (on occasion), have driven past that fence and/or those barrels, to get into the lot, and no one has cared to do anything about the sight of them.  Peterson has refused to remove that fence, and I'm sure she has never contacted The City about those barrels and certainly not the trash can.  

In fact, it was only after my post on Sunday that the ground mess around the trash can was actually cleaned-up.  

I drove by and saw it yesterday, so I have to assume that someone at the Zoo read my post, and had it taken care of, because I know it wasn't DPW.  And with that, Why did I have to blog about it?  Couldn't someone just sweep it up to begin with?  Like a month ago?  Considering, the Zoo left this graffiti out there over a week, until I blogged about it, I guess I need to work quicker calling attention to stuff.  Tsk!

Last night I sent SF311 a message, with my previous blog post, asking them to forward it to DPW.   I also asked if they can access notations by SR #'s (Service Request)

Good effin' Grief!   DPW closed the case because they couldn't find the trash can!  This is just lame.  I can't even with this.  It's literally in front of the Zoo.  I can't comprehend this, so I have to believe they never even went out there. ... I just sent them a map. Advice: Don't invite DPW workers on a scavenger hunt.

I also sent them a separate message about the barrels.

 

Well, well, the barrels are in part the responsibility of the RecPark!  Another entity who has proven to be negligent in their job, certainly in regard to the Zoo. The whole nest of slacker bullshit that surrounds the Zoo is apparently never-ending. 

UPDATE:  After getting no attention from RecPark or DPW to this Service Request, in addition to the whole five month nonsense with DPW regarding the trash can and years with the RecPark about the Bison Spinklers, I slacked on keeping on them about the barrels.  Too many months later, I followed-up with 311 on the SR# for the barrels, and they responded that those responsible are the GGNRA (Golden Gate National Recreation Area)!!!  Good grief, more incompetence!   Why say it is RecPark and DPW, if it's GGNRA?!  So, I'm back on it!

Previous Post:

Why Do City Departments Give Our Zoo The Middle Finger?

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-do-city-departments-give-our-zoo.html

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"Personal Opinions and Facts presented publicly are Not against the law or any rules. ... Censorship and Retaliation Actions in an attempt at Suppression are frowned upon by Healthy Societies."

For Full Statement see this post:

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-zoo-status.html

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I used to use (search) labels, but too often forget.  I started noting "Hot Topic" in title, but fell lax on that.  Now I'm just going to add labels, keywords, etc., here at the bottom with hashtags.  Does it help in searches, who knows. 

#SanFrancisco , #SanFranciscoZoo , #Zoos #SanFranciscoZoologicalSociety , #SanFranciscoZooDirectorTanyaPeterson , #SanFranciscoRecreationAndParksDept , #SanFranciscoMayorLondonBreed ,

#SanFranciscoMayorDanielLurie

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Why Do City Departments Give Our Zoo The Middle Finger?

Much like my years ago requests, regarding Our Zoo's perimeter fence replacement (SFRecPark) and graffiti abatement (SFPublicWorks), City Departments seem to hear Zoo, and cover their ears, while extending their middle finger.

I wrote this in a previous post in regard to the issues mentioned above. ... 

> "Again, very poor of the City of San Francisco to not try and help a Zoo that they own, that is on City property, and that carries their name.  Once again, because the Zoo is so far from the geographical area that concerns them, apparently no one seems to care." <

This week, it will be a month since I saw the City's trash receptacle outside the Zoo, was a broken down mess.  It looked like it had been bludgeoned from the top, and burnt out, with chunks and bits of concrete crumbled onto the ground.

I sent a clean-up, and/or complete removal request and photo for the Public Works Dept? to SF311.  The later, I had requested long ago when another trash can issue was a blight on the front of the Zoo.  Ignored, this receptacle location has remained, and is always a mess.

The reply was review on replacement or removal status would happen "within twenty days".

Two weeks later, the mess was still there.  I sent an updated photo, and expressed that I felt, the least they could do in the meantime, was clean the ground debris.  Response was, clean-up within three days. 

The mess was still there on my next visit, which would have been the fourth day. ... My initial reaction was to immediately call bullshit on the situation, but with the twentieth day approaching soon, I decided to wait.

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be a bitch about this, but they come by and take the trash, it's friggin' lazy to not sweep the debris, or any other mess left as a result of their receptacle in this location.  Likewise, it's shameful negligence seeing the damaged unit (weeks, maybe months ago), while on the job, and not ordering a new one on their own.  Why does a member of the public need to call attention to this?  

Some might think, Why do I care about such things?  If you are one to wonder, re-read that sentence.  The operative word is Care.

My visit last Wednesday marked day twenty-two.  The mess and the broken down receptacle is still there.  

I will now follow-up with SF311, and include the link to this post for them to forward to Public Works.  Noting, "Day 22, Mess still there.  I give up.  No One cares that the front of Our Zoo looks like shit.  Thanks for trying." 

Additionally, there is a City trash receptacle directly across the street.  So, this one is unnecessary and just invites extra trash that creates a mess in front of Our Zoo.

Considering this does have to do with the appearance of Our Zoo, Staff could and should have swept the destruction debris to the gutter, but it really is not their job.  Though coupled with the state of that damn broken down perimeter fence, the front of our Zoo looks war torn, and someone needs to have pride in Our Zoo, even if it doesn't come from the top.

I see this all as just another middle finger on the part of a City Department in regard to caring about Our Zoo. ... The first being the Zoo's own head Department, SF RecPark, who refused to include them in their New Fence Project in 2020.  

The following is one of many posts I've written documenting the "perimeter fence" (searchable keyword).  ... Like my previous post subject "bison",  the fence issue is tiresome.

The Continuing Saga Of The Disgraceful Perimeter Fence 

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-continuing-saga-of-disgraceful.html

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Blogger's Statement

"Personal Opinions and Facts presented publicly are Not against the law or any rules. ... Censorship and Retaliation Actions in an attempt at Suppression are frowned upon by Healthy Societies."

For Full Statement see this post:

https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-zoo-status.html

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I used to use (search) labels, but too often forget.  I started noting "Hot Topic" in title, but fell lax on that.  Now I'm just going to add labels, keywords, etc., here at the bottom with hashtags.  Does it help in searches, who knows. 

#SanFrancisco , #SanFranciscoZoo , #Zoos #SanFranciscoZoologicalSociety , #SanFranciscoZooDirectorTanyaPeterson , #SanFranciscoRecreationAndParksDept , #SanFranciscoMayorLondonBreed ,

#SanFranciscoMayorDanielLurie

#AssociationOfZoosAndAquariums , #AZA , #SpeciesSurvivalPlan , #SSP , #Animals , #Wildlife , #Nature , #AnimalWelfare , #AnimalCruelty , #AndeanBear , #KomodoDragon , #Chimpanzees ,  #PatasMonkey , #Fossa , #Orangutans , #Barriers , #PerimeterFence, #Pandas #Bison