[quote](CNN) -- Costa Rican officials plan to close the country's public zoos and open the cages where animals have been kept.
Environment Minister Rene Castro says the country, long known for its biodiversity, is going in a new direction to protect wildlife: "No cages."
Explaining the plan to close two public zoos next year, Castro described a memory from his childhood.
When he was growing up, his grandmother had a pet parrot, Castro told Costa Rica's La Nacion newspaper last week.
"One day, we took the parrot out to the patio, and a flock of wild parrots passed, and the parrot went with them," he told La Nacion. "It made a big impression on me because I thought that we were taking good care of her. We fed her with food and affection. ... all these things that we as humans thought she liked. And when she had the chance, she left."[/quote]
[url]http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/07/world/americas/costa-rica-zoo-cages/index.html?hpt=ila_c2[/url]
What about that one zoo on an island that some guy leased off the coast?
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