The talk show hosts and other animals: The nation’s talking heads brought us coverage of the future of the Giza Zoo and Orman botanical garden, as well as the latest from the House.

The Giza Zoo has closed its doors for 18 months: The Giza Zoo and adjacent Orman botanical garden have closed their doors until 2025 to undergo an EGP 1 bn renovation carried out by the National Authority for Military Production, Abnaa Sinai, and another firm dubbed Hedekty (My Garden), Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi said (watch, runtime: 1:40). The consortium will renovate, operate, and maintain the zoo and garden under a 25-year contract with the Agriculture Ministry. Following the renovations that zoo and the garden will become one, Mohamed Ragei, head of the Agriculture Ministry’s zoos department told El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 17:09).

Why the need for renovations? “The zoo was established in 1891 and its entire infrastructure has become inadequate and in need of revamping … Zoo standards have changed since then and cage designs need to change to better accommodate the animals,” Ehab Saber, head of the Agriculture Ministry’s veterinary services department, told Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 3:30)

Should investment incentives be made available for longer? MPs will this week discuss and vote on a number of investment incentives put forward by the Supreme Investment Councilin May. “I would have liked for these incentives to be made available for a ten-year period instead of three. It takes the investor one or two years to set up shop,” MP Mohamed Badrawi told Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 8:50).

AND- El Hekaya (watch, runtime: 4:29) and Salet El Tahrir (watch, runtime: 2:06) both interviewed climate experts to weigh in on the planet seeing its warmest days on record last week.

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