Mayor Pam Iorio won several concessions from leaders of Lowry Park Zoo on Friday that both sides say should prevent future financial deals between the zoo and its executives. ...more

September 20, 2008

Lowry Park Zoo leaders agreed today that the zoo's animals belong to Tampa and that a full accounting of the animals will be made to the city on a regular basis. ...more

September 19, 2008

The nonprofit organization that runs Lowry Park Zoo is at odds with Mayor Pam Iorio over the attraction's oversight and ownership of the zoo animals. ...more

September 17, 2008

The nonprofit organization that runs Lowry Park Zoo is at odds with Mayor Pam Iorio over the attraction's oversight and ownership of the zoo animals. The mayor's staff met with zoo officials today for the first time since Iorio's letter last week demanding more accountability and that it sever all ties with Safari Wild, a private exotic-animal park owned by zoo president Lex Salisbury. ...more

September 16, 2008

Maybe the best way to appreciate why the elephant-you-know-what has royally hit the fan over at the Lowry Park Zoo, is to suppose for a moment that the attraction's president, Lex Salisbury, was instead a Hillsborough County commissioner. ...more

September 13, 2008

Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury said he regrets the controversy that ensued after offering land at his private Polk County exotic-animal park for boarding zoo animals. ...more

September 12, 2008

TAMPA - Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury said he regrets the controversy that ensued after offering land at his private Polk County exotic-animal park for boarding zoo animals. ...more

September 11, 2008

While I'm a big fan of Lowry Park Zoo, here's my problem with most animal habitat exhibitions - nothing much ever happens. ...more

August 28, 2008

Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury has helped transform what 20 years ago was the country's worst zoo into what Child Magazine rates as the nation's best for its size. ...more

August 28, 2008

The biggest adventure going on at Safari Wild exotic animal park in Lakeland seems to be the effort to bushwhack through the bureaucratic mess that halted the project. ...more

August 18, 2008