What affects us affects cats
Howlett’s Wild Animal Park, Canterbury, UK is enriching the environment of their big cats by spraying perfume onto the ground. This creates a blob of scent which is interesting to a big cat such as a tiger. In this way, their environment is enriched and more closely corresponds to the wild where cats are …
This gives us a glimpse into what it is like for zoo animals living through war. They tend to be completely neglected and die or they are killed by other zoo animals. That is probably the general and expected scenario. No one gives a damn for zoo animals or most other animals in war, …
Virginia McKenna, the actress and wildlife campaigner, and the founder of the Born Free Foundation is calling for the introduction of a national zoo inspectorate in Britain. In the USA, I understand, that there is the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), an organisation which accredits zoos and thereby helping to raise and maintain …
South Lakes Zoo in Cumbria has just this minute lost its license. I have written about this zoo previously. This means it must close either permanently or perhaps the owner will appeal the county council decision. I believe the evidence of mismanagement was overwhelming. The decision is a good one as far as I …
At the time David Gill managed the South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria, England. In 2010 a female Sumatran tiger cub, Kadi, was one of the zoo’s star attractions. Her birth in that year was a triumph for David Gill. This is the man, incidentally, who has allegedly totally messed up the management of …
Zoo administrators try and justify their existence, in part, by saying that they do valuable conservation work. This is highly misleading. The Times newspaper states that only 3% of zoo expenditure goes on conservation and only 10% of the animals held in British zoos are endangered species. Research by the Born Free Foundation found …
David Gill is the founder of South Lakes Zoo in Dalton, Cumbria, UK. He’s alleged to have instructed his veterinarian to kill a Sumatran tiger out of vengeance because the tiger had killed one of his zookeepers, 24-year-old Sarah McClay, who had entered a cage with the tiger. She was mauled and suffered deep …
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO. This was a New Year family outing to a zoo that went horribly wrong and the reason was a bizarre decision by the head of the family, Mr Zhang, to try and avoid the zoo’s entrance fee by climbing over two ten-foot-high walls which landed him in the tiger enclose where …
