Battle over Bengals at Panaewa Rainforest Zoo & Ga

[shockwave rider]

One aspect of this no one has brought up is the fact that because we are so isolated, and so many families here are too poor to take their families to Honolulu, much less the mainland, the only chance to see animals from almost anywhere else in the world is that zoo. I know many kids, and even adults, here, whose only LIVE exposure to animals not commonly found in Hawaii was the Hilo zoo. Namaste was the only terrestrial top predator many of them had ever seen. That is why I think it goes beyond just getting the attendance numbers up, especially since there is no admission fee.