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The attendance
of theme parks and zoos is a worldwide experience that millions of people
seek every year. There may be an altruistic meaning behind the development
of many facilities such as zoos and animal themed parks....
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Effective mosquito control is critically important to reduce the transmission of debilitating human and animal diseases. For example, in zoo facilities, diseases such as avian malaria, West Nile virus, St Louis encephalitis virus, and many others may result in debilitating illness and even death.
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To most people
a lawn is an open area that surrounds a home, and is planted as a monoculture
with a single species of grass. Often these lawns are maintained at great
cost and with much effort.
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The main theme of this paper is to show that the establishment
of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Plant Health Care (PHC) programs
are not only viable for successful horticulture and necessary to protect
the environment, but when incorporated into the design and construction,
and ongoing maintenance of a zoological and botanical theme park, these
programs are very cost effective.
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In most zoological exhibits or gardens, water is utilized as one of the
main features or a focal point of the exhibit. This water feature can
be an architectural element in the form of a waterfall, pond, or river
and it may also be a habitat with fish, water birds, turtles, plants or
some type of ecosystem.
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Subtle
changes in the topography of a site can be advantageous to a theme park
or zoo setting for many reasons. First there is the aesthetic benefit.
Low rises over which trails pass or vegetation grows will be much more
visually interesting than a flat terrain.
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The creation
of a lush tropical jungle in two years from a barren semi-tropical site
requires the coordination of input from a number of disciplines. Horticulture,
Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Soil Science are a short
list of the entities needed for the success of such an undertaking.
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If you
ever had the chance to visit the original Parrot Jungle and Gardens (PJG),
you were participating in South Florida history. By world standards, the
65 year old zoological park was a youngster.
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Parrot
Jungle Island had its first year anniversary during the month of June
2004. This was a good
time to reflect upon the progress of this “built from scratch”
garden and review the means and methods of the horticultural decisions
that were made during the two-year process of landscape installation.
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The South
Florida landmark is preparing for its December closing by changing its
schedule to weekend hours beginning Sept. 2. The facility's Watson Island
site is expected to be ready in the spring. Story, X.
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Sixty-five
years ago, a middle-age Austrian immigrant named Franz S. Scherr hacked
and dug Parrot Jungle out of a dense, creek-fed subtropical hammock in
out-of-the-way South Dade County. The featured attraction was the Scherr
family's pet blue-and-gold macaw, Zebra.
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One of the
most luxuriant tropical plant collections in South Florida was Parrot
Jungle and Gardens (PJG). Since its opening in 1936, PJG had evolved from
a typical roadside tourist attraction with a parrot show and pretty gardens
to a South Florida historical icon.
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