A Michael Broad Blog
NEWS/VIEWS – SOUTH AFRICA – PRIVATE ZOO: Dean Schneider is being investigated for alleged animal cruelty after being filmed punching one of his lion cubs. This video was or still is on his Instagram page but I can’t find it. It may have been removed because of the controversy surrounding it. However, you can …
What about the ethics behind the current world’s largest cat, Apollo, bred by Doc Antle?
On the first day of their lives, Joe Exotic took cubs from their mothers that he had deliberately bred to exploit them. When the cubs grew up they were surplus to requirements and parked at the back of his wildlife park. Joe Exotic is pleased that he has become famous (infamous actually) because of …
I am very happy that a millionaire conservationist who inherited a zoo from his parents has said that small zoos should be closed within ten years and the larger ones in 20-30 years. He’s going to convert his zoo to a rescue centre eventually. The reasons he provides are cogent. In fact when you …
Oleg Zubkov is the owner of a safari park and zoo in CrimeaA. It appears to be a private zoo on a gargantuan scale. A scale at which Oleg Zubkov is incapable of coping because, for example, he says that he needs 3,500 tonnes of food a day for his animals. The park covers …
Javon Stacks likes to think of himself as an entrepreneur, exotic zoo owner, primatologist and wildlife educator but the authorities and Romulus law enforcement say that he is not looking after his animals properly. They’re looking for him and they have posted a photo of Stacks on social media over the weekend asking for …
In the picture you see some of the 48 animals including tigers and lions shot dead by police after they were released by Terry Thompson from his private zoo. They animals had scattered and were tracked down. The police considered them a danger to residents and rather than tranquillize them, shot them instead. It …
The rich of Pakistan, apparently, like to possess exotic creatures such as white lions. The laws of Pakistan allows them to import these animals but there are no laws regulating how they are to look after them once they enter their private zoos. This is a recipe for animal abuse. It’s a recipe for …
