Page views: 171 Born to bring in visitors - died because nobody wants to see you anymore A drama is currently unfolding at Nuremberg Zoo that shows with scandalous clarity what ails modern zoos. 20 Guinea baboons, intelligent, social, sentient, suffering - born in captivity, reared under artificial conditions - are to die. Why? Because they are „too many“. Because they are no longer „useful“....
Page views: 155 The grim reality behind the zoo profiteering scheme Imagine a world in which animals are bred for profit rather than out of love for nature. This has long been a reality in zoos: animals are born, put on display and killed when they are „surplus to requirements“. This practice not only affects small animals, but also vertebrates, marine mammals and primates. And...
Seitenaufrufe: 234 Wie der Tiergarten Nürnberg einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall schaffen will Der Tiergarten Nürnberg steht vor einer ethischen Entscheidung, die weitreichende Konsequenzen für die gesamte deutsche Zoolandschaft haben könnte. Während über 40 Guinea-Paviane in den zu engen Gehegen des Tiergartens um ihr Leben bangen, versucht die Zooleitung unter Direktor Dag Encke einen Präzedenzfall zu schaffen, der es künftig allen...
