BioPark of Rio

This guide to the BioPark of Rio traces the cageless design you're walking through back to the old zoo on this ground, shut down in January 2016 after Brazil's environmental agency judged its cages too small and its habitats a sham. It follows the company that rebuilt the site and, five years later, brought eighteen giraffes into Brazil in a single shipment, quarantining them at a coastal resort before bringing them here. That shipment turned out to be logged under a customs code meant for wild-caught animals, with no individual paperwork attached.