Zoo Design...
getting close to wildlife.
Since 1994 - Design Services to the Zoological Community
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Ur'sa (ür'så), n. [L. ursa a she-bear, also, a constellation,
fem. of ursus a bear.] Astron. Either one of the Bears,
Ursa Major or Ursa Minor.
NEW URSA ARTICLE
Zoophoria Website, a site posting a series of
Interviews with Zoo movers and shakers by
Grayson Ponti recently published an interview Nevin.
Go to Zoophoria and read "the Zoo Fix it Guy"
Read our recent article on
hows Zoos can be transformed
into Peace Sanctuaries
PEACE MASTER PLANS
Coming to a Zoo near you! We are inviting Zoos to become
Places of Peace, and link up to create a World Peace Trail.
Talk to Dr. Gail and see how your place can become a place of Peace.
TourismforPeace.com
NEW PROJECT BRIEFS
Zoo Atlanta Savanna Expansion
to open 2019
UNDER- CONSTRUCTION
Zoo Atlanta was given the Cyclorama Museum at their front door, plus expansion land for Elephants! Ursa and The Epsten Group has a plan to transform the Zoo.
Read all about it in the Concept Design page, or read all about it on my blog -
or see the Concept Animation on YouTube! -
CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Rockwork experts, Cemrock, is busy at work, saving trees and
building 10' high mudbanks to keep the Elephants inside!
before and after
I think I see elephants in that mudbank…
and see the Project Brief
called Savanna Expansion here
SOME FAVORITE PHOTOS
BIG URSA OPENINGS
OKC Picnic Grove
Recently complete - photos to come
NCZ POLAR BEAR OPEN 
The Polar Bear Return to
North Carolina Zoo, Asheboro
Ursa's concept plan "REALIZED"
who we are
Nevin Lash, ASLA
what we do
Landscape Architecture
Ecotourism Planning
Peace Education
contact us
Atlanta, GA 30312 USA
404-222-0488 (Nevin)
404-222-9595 (Gail)
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Ursa International
designing human communities in harmony with nature;
designing wildlife communities in harmony with people
Special thanks to Jose Miguel Terradas Esplugas for many wonderful drawings, Jeff Owen, North Carolina Zoo for the wonderful Wild Polar Bear photo in our background, Amy Fultz, Chimp Haven for Chimp Group shot, J.P. Ouellete from the Cochrane Polar Bear Sanctuary for pictures from his facility and Woodland Park Zoo for most of the photos from Woodland Park Zoo Northern Trail Exhibit. All other photos taken by Nevin and Gail Lash.
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