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05-08-2008

Dear Nightshades,

I would lilke to come out in support of my fellow forumster Zooish and speak out on his behalf. To our best knowledge Zooish has always presented a fair and independent view of the Singapore Zoo or Night Zoo to his fellow members on this forum. He has never discredited nor pretended to speak on behalf of Singapore Zoo management.

With respect to the photos published it would perhaps have been better if he had sought prior permission from you before posting them on the net. He has made a public apology - and perhaps privately too - and has promised to delete these from this forum. This should be the end of that.

I in no way think that it is necessary for Zooish to no longer provide his personal perspective on Singapore or the Night Zoo on this forum or any other zoo in the region and beyond for that matter. This would compromise the very being of this forum to all posters.


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As to the value of this forum to all members, I would like to put to you that this forum is an open information source and all who share this space are interested and committed zoo goers, members of societies or even staffers. What counts for this forum is that a deep and intimate understanding of zoos and general information sharing and discussion on topical subjects and the diverse perspectives all forumsters give on eachothers' regions zoos, trends and developments benefits all who are part of this on line community.

We - thank goodness - have left the dark ages of no or misinformation on this Planet of ours and the net is a powerful information source to bring all informaton quickly to all interested parties. I hope that you will respect that.


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Finally, if you feel the need to post on Zooish' actions and perceived misdemeanors on this forum - I respect your professional perspective and loyality to Singapore Zoo management -, but is it your intention to post on Singapore Zoo comings and goings, new developments at all on this forum in future (which I am sure all of us would be very interested to learn from and discuss)?

I await your opinionated response.

Jelle

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05-08-2008

Zooish, I have enjoyed your posts very much and read them with great interest. I hope very much that you won`t stop posting!! Most members here don`t browse on Singapore newspaper websites regularly so even if informations about the Singapore Zoo are made public, we often won`t hear about it. SO please keep us informed! It`s always better not to rely on just one person to post information, and we don`t even know yet if Nightshades will come back and share information with us. And even if he will, it never hurts to get more then one perspective. Just look how many people are posting about zoo news from the UK, the Netherlands or Germany!

All the best, Yassa