OPEN ZOO NEAR KUALA LUMPUR?

Many are thinking of keeping green areas, maintaining nature and at the same time public can get the benefit of the forest. Old benefit is logging, later recreation. One of the ideas is open zoo, where animals were kept in the environment that close to their natural habitat.Singapore Zoo already established their open zoo concept and attract world's attention. NOW in Malaysia Zoo Melaka, Zoo Taiping and Zoo Negara try to develop the open zoo concept. BUT may be too late due to space and natural habitat. Now other green,natural forest and logged forest may be approached as a new open concept zoo.A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred.
The term zoological garden refers to zoology, the study of animals, a term deriving from the Greek zōon (ζῷον, "animal") and lógos (λóγος, "study"). The abbreviation "zoo" was first used of the London Zoological Gardens, which opened for scientific study in 1828 and to the public in 1847. The number of major animal collections open to the public around the world now exceeds 1,000, around 80 percent of them in cities
London Zoo, which opened in 1828, first called itself a menagerie or "zoological garden," short for "Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society of London." The abbreviation "zoo" first appeared in print in the UK around 1847, when it was used for the Clifton Zoo. The term "zoological park" was used for more expansive facilities in Washington, D.C., and the Bronx in New York, which opened in 1891 and 1899 respectively.
Relatively new terms for zoos coined in the late 20th century are "conservation park" or "biopark". Adopting a new name is a strategy used by some zoo professionals to distance their institutions from the stereotypical and nowadays criticized zoo concept of the 19th century. The term "biopark" was first coined and developed by the National Zoo, Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s. In 1993, the New York Zoological Society changed its name to the Wildlife Conservation Society and rebranded the zoos under its jurisdiction as "wildlife conservation parks."