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Why I stopped going to the zoo

After taking his children to the zoo, Robert Everett-Green decided he was never going to visit a zoo again. In this radio essay, the journalist and father of two explains his decision.
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A mother and her child outside the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World exhibit, two days after a boy tumbled into a gorilla enclosure and officials were forced to kill Harambe, a Western lowland gorilla. (William Philpott/Reuters)
The 1804:12Why I stopped going to the zoo

On May 28, a 17-year-old male western lowland gorilla was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Officials say they shot and killed Harambe in order to save the life of a four-year-old child who fell into his cage.

Since then, there has been plenty of debate about whether the boy was really in danger, and who was ultimately to blame: the zoo, the boy's parent, or both. 

But after taking his children to the zoo many years ago, Robert Everett-Green decided he was never going to visit a zoo again.

In this radio essay, the journalist and father of two explains. 

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