We Deserve Healthy Forest, Healthy Zoo

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Overton Park is the communal backyard of Midtown Memphis. Its institutions give us art, music and entertainment, and these things are important, but its natural spaces are essential. Ever since Overton Park was created in 1901, its peaceful fields and forest paths have given joy to generations of Memphians.

Despite their immense value to our community, Overton Park's natural spaces lack legal protection. These spaces are often treated as "undeveloped land" when, in fact, they are fully developed as public parkland.

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We Deserve Healthy Forest, Healthy Zoo

Over the past century, the greatest threat to the forest and open space of Overton Park has been the expansion of the Memphis Zoo . We have lost 50 of the park's original 200 acres of forest. As recently as two years ago...

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