Elisa Allen (PETA): As long as people continue to pay to go through zoo gates, animals will continue to suffer. Which is why everyone concerned about this incident can make a difference by refusing to patronize any zoo.
WILL TAYLOR: ‘Animal rights group PETA has urged potential customers to stop going to zoos after a fire killed dozens of animals in one yesterday. Apes, monkeys, bats and birds were among the 30 deaths at Krefeld Zoo – north of Dusseldorf – after a blaze started at the ape house in the early hours of New Year’s Day… Police believe it was caused by a sky lantern lit to celebrate the arrival of 2020…
Animals including five orangutans, two gorillas, a chimpanzee and several monkeys, as well as birds and fruit bats, died. The monkey house was completely gutted by the fire… Many of the dead animals were close to extinction in the wild… The ape house did not have fire detectors or sprinklers, which was not required when it was built in the 1970s. The zoo has said it passed a regular fire protection check a few months ago…
PETA director Elisa Allen told Yahoo News UK: “Yet another zoo fire claims lives and shows that caging animals results in tragedy. “No amount of time in a zoo can take away wild animals’ natural instincts to roam, search for food, care for their young, and, when a fire breaks out, flee – something that these monkeys were unable to do while locked in a cage. “It’s 2020, and the days of putting animals behind bars should be in the past. “As long as people continue to pay to go through zoo gates, animals will continue to suffer – which is why everyone concerned about this incident can make a difference by refusing to patronize any zoo”.’ SOURCE…
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