Tisei: Closing zoos would be costly mistake - Malden - Your Town - Boston.com

Tisei: Closing zoos would be costly mistake - Malden - Your Town - Boston.com: "Unfortunately, these two popular family destinations may not have a chance to break any more attendance records in the future, thanks to a $4 million reduction in state funding assistance. Faced with a 60 percent drop in state support, at least one, and probably both, of these zoos will have to close. That is a scenario that Zoo New England (ZNE), the private entity that runs the two zoos, would like to avoid."