Former SMG executive Emslie suffers no confidence vote as Edinburgh Zoo chairman
Former SMG executive Emslie suffers no confidence vote as EdinburghFormer Scottish SMG executive Donald Emslie looks set to leave his role as chairman of Edinburgh Zoo following a vote of no confidence by members of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
Around 500 members of the society convened at an emergency meeting to discuss the future of the Edinburgh attraction following the suspension of three executives at the Zoo as a result of anonymous allegations being made against them. One of the executives, Gary Wilson, has now been cleared of any wrong doing.
The board survived a vote of no confidence, although chairman Emslie was not so lucky, despite having steered the zoo into the international spotlight with the imminent arrival of two pandas from China to stay in Scotland.
Pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang will be the first to live in the UK for 17 years, although the Zoo itself has been hit by financial problems in recent times.
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Good; he's in cloud-cuckoo land. The zoo is falling apart under his leadership - and all he can do is blame a "smear campaign". There is no smear campaign, people are only reporting events.
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