Cuningar Loop - the new Glasgow Zoo

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Cuningar Loop - the new Glasgow Zoo

Postby nodrog » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:40 am

According to the Evening Times anyway...

£35m plan to build new zoo for Glasgow

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The plan is to house some of the world's most exciting and endangered animals - monkeys, manatees, tapirs and big cats - in an environment almost identical to their natural habitat.
The artificial ecosystem will flood every day, just like the Amazon river rises and falls.
Behind the plan are bosses at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland who want to turn the river's Cunnigar Loop, an overgrown former dump in Rutherglen, into part of the tropics.


Full story at
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5046170.html
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Postby Pgcc93 » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:01 am

That's such a shit idea. Just leave the Loop as it is, it's a fucking natural zoo already. Glasgow Zoo shut cause nobody was interested and it became unsustainable to maintain and had been in decline for well over a decade. What are the odds the same thing will happen here?

Zoo my arse!
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Postby Apollo » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:30 am

Glasgow Zoo was ultimately brought down by politics, animal activists, apathy and no doubt some back-room deals done by faceless individuals over land.

Who knows where this new idea fits into their scheme, but the same fate would seem likely to be the ultimate conclusion for this idea after a few years, once it had consumed and dispersed its investment capital into the apprpriate 'homes'.
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Postby McShad » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:48 pm

Main problem with glasgow zoo was that it was in the arse end of nowhere.... how would a tourist get there if they did'nt drive?

Bus?
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Postby Ally Doll » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:50 pm

McShad wrote:Main problem with glasgow zoo was that it was in the arse end of nowhere....


A terrible slight on the people of Uddingston! ::):
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Postby jim » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:37 pm

I thought Cuningar Loop was already a site of special scientific interest (SSI)? Or has that idea been quietly shelved?
Anyway the Loop is a haven for (indigenous) wildlife, human and animal. Lets hope this is all bullshit and they leave it to the frogs and the dead fox cubs.
Anyone fancy another (winter time) visit? Now that everybody knows about it...
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Postby Fossil » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:01 pm

jim wrote:I thought Cuningar Loop was already a site of special scientific interest (SSI)? Or has that idea been quietly shelved?
Anyway the Loop is a haven for (indigenous) wildlife, human and animal. Lets hope this is all bullshit and they leave it to the frogs and the dead fox cubs.
Anyone fancy another (winter time) visit? Now that everybody knows about it...


Aye Jim lets go back. Combo might join us
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Postby Socceroo » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:05 pm

Modern Fossil wrote:
Aye Jim lets go back. Combo might join us
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Where's the Cuningar Loop, i remember you mentioned it briefly Fossy in the Bombs over Glasgow thread?

Is that the bulb of land up past Dalmarnock that the Clyde flows around?
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Postby cumbo » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:02 am

I will come along I'm always on the lookout for ginger bottles anyway :D
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Postby Fossil » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:52 am

Socceroo wrote:
Modern Fossil wrote:
Aye Jim lets go back. Combo might join us
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Where's the Cuningar Loop, i remember you mentioned it briefly Fossy in the Bombs over Glasgow thread?

Is that the bulb of land up past Dalmarnock that the Clyde flows around?


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Postby jim » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:15 am

What about this Sunday? Weatherman says light rain but I'm man enough if you are?
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Postby Fossil » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:42 am

jim wrote:What about this Sunday? Weatherman says light rain but I'm man enough if you are?


aye sounds good What time you thinking of?

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Postby jim » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:23 pm

Around 10AM?

Anybody know if I can get a bus from Great Western Road to Dalmarnock? I suppose I could do the train?
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Postby Fossil » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:39 pm

::): 10!
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Postby Dexter St. Clair » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:02 pm

Anybody know if I can get a bus from Great Western Road to Dalmarnock? I suppose I could do the train?


Dalmarnock station is closed on Sundays
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