{"id":751908,"date":"2018-03-20T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751908"},"modified":"2018-03-20T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:55:51","slug":"venezuelas-zoo-animals-are-starving-and-a-one-time-actor-wants-to-airlift-them-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751908","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s zoo animals are starving, and a one-time actor wants to airlift them out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JIM WYSS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;It sounds like a plan ripped from a Hollywood script. A massive, C-130 Hercules cargo plane lands in western Venezuela, loads up starving and sick zoo animals in the dead of night and then transfers them to national parks around the world. But that\u2019s exactly what Raul Julia-Levy \u2014 an animal rights activist and actor who is hounded by controversy \u2014 is hoping to do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jarred by images of bone-thin lions and grim reports that zookeepers have resorted to feeding \u201clesser\u201d zoo animals to hungry carnivores amid a nationwide hunger crisis, Julia-Levy is lobbying Venezuela to green-light a mass evacuation&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Julia-Levy said he already has access to a C-130 cargo plane and commitments from parks and reserves in Mexico, the United States and Europe to take the animals. And while he says there\u2019s nothing political about what he\u2019s trying to do, he acknowledges that his efforts are being undermined by politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>He claims local officials in Zulia state have given him tacit permission to evacuate some of the animals \u2014 but are worried about the reaction it might produce from the central government and President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/venezuela\/article204951619.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ln4q_FQLCZk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIM WYSS: &#8216;It sounds like a plan ripped from a Hollywood script. A massive, C-130 Hercules cargo plane lands in western Venezuela, loads up starving and sick zoo animals in the dead of night and then transfers them to national parks around the world. But that\u2019s exactly what Raul Julia-Levy \u2014 an animal rights activist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,22,25],"tags":[26,27,28,35],"class_list":["post-751908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-morality","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751910,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751908\/revisions\/751910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}