After 97 years, Lake Superior Zoo plans to phase out lions
African lion siblings Malkia, Leo, and Lilly came to the Lake Superior Zoo as five-month-old cubs in 2008. They replaced the zoo’s previous lion, Nemo, who
City, zoo seek to reduce cost of Bear Country project
Shortly after State Senator Erik Simonson took over management of the Lake Superior Zoo, in October of 2017, he announced that he intended to revitalize the
City gets creative in subsidizing zoo
On Dec. 9, 2019, the Duluth City Council will consider Resolution 850, a “Resolution Authorizing Agreement Amendment to the Line of Credit Promissory Note for the
City-owned zoo prohibits public from attending board meetings
Prior to 2009, the Lake Superior Zoo was run by the city of Duluth. In 2009, the city hired the Arrowhead Zoological Society to run the
Zoo to ask city for inflationary increase of subsidy
Since 2009, when the city contracted with the Arrowhead Zoological Society to operate the Lake Superior Zoo, the city has given the zoo $7,041,500 in support
