"Unfortunately, in most zoos, the visitor rate and the economic viability crucial ... why some species of interest only as animal babies and be left to their fate after the dubious animal trade ... for me a good example is "our polar bear Knut," a frenzied media circus, photo opportunities and advertising icon, and now everyone wanted Knut?
know someone right away, where he is and whether he's OK? Hardly anyone ..! the interest is gone, because he's no longer the cute little cuddly-Knut, but has now become a large and uninteresting adult polar bear man ..!
a situation that frustrated me as an animal lover and angry, makes because this is not about animal welfare and species conservation is, but only profitable livestock ... "
Animal Welfare Society - Born to die ...
the summer as a spectator magnet, in winter only ballast -. that is the fate of many baby animals in European zoos . If the young only once in puberty, is in the family enclosures no room left. To end up hundreds of young animals, so-called "surplus" of dubious trade in animals in poor posture in hunting preserves, as a circus, or simply disappear without a trace. Animal rights activists protesting for years against this practice. Different from the situation in Switzerland, are consistently among the Confederates supernumerary offspring killed painlessly, if not a zoo finds that the animals, a new species-appropriate can offer at home. This past summer was in the Swiss capital Bern devoted to two baby bears: Ursina and Bernadette enchanted more than two million visitors. The bear is coming this year, the decision between life and death before. The Swiss are ambivalent. "But it would not break one's heart even when these animals take in a good zoo, twenty or thirty years would be locked up in a small cage?" Replies Sara Wehrli of the Swiss animal protection.
In this report, we lead the world's Bernese bear keeper at his daily work with the agile bear family. Our undercover reporter shows how easy it is to buy as an individual protected exotics from German zoos. For the first time and exclusively in Germany expressed probably most active Zootierhändler Werner Bode for the camera on the business of the zoo animals: "I can not even be mentioned that the 10,000 or 100,000 animals were, who have passed through my hands." "Born to die "addresses a topic that none of the affected public likes to talk, but before that no one can hide as long as baby animals are the stars of the season and fill the coffers of the zoo.
Animal Defense League - Source: Worldwide WDR-TV report
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