(Isko Moreno Domagoso Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN)
In a recent Facebook post, Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso said the city’s Public Recreations Bureau (PRB) holds frequent meetings for the zoo’s reopening.
PRB Director Pio Morabe also meets with zoo owners, directors, and trainers to discuss the proper management, handling, animal husbandry, training, and breeding of the zoo animals, Domagoso said.
In July 2020, the Manila city government converted Manila Zoo’s horseback riding area into an organic urban farm in a bid to make the facility sustainable amid the pandemic.
The animal waste collected in the zoo is used as fertilizer for the organic urban farm. The vegetables harvested there are then fed to the zoo animals.