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Slight educational benefits aren't comparable to all the harm for animals in closed spaces. Education can be done in multiple ways, outside of zoos. We should boycott all zoos and support animal sanctuaries, they don't breed with animals. (it's like the supply and demand principle)

#News: New #research suggests #zoos cull surplus animals to feed other zoo animals. This should draw condemnation as it exposes #animalcruelty and the clear priority of entertainment and profit. Why even visit a Zoo? #AnimalRights #BoycottZoos #Boycott4Wildlife
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250108144318.htm

Zoos: where wild animals' freedom is traded for human entertainment. Help end wild animal captivity for entertainment!: drove.com/.2yE8 #zoos #boycottzoos #captivity #wildanimals #animalrights

#Silvester bedeutet für Wild- und #Zootiere puren #Stress und oft sogar den Tod.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/tiere-berlin-tierschutz-flucht-in-den-tod-silvester-li.4068

#Vögel fliehen panisch, verlieren Energie und Orientierung, während #Säugetiere wie #Füchse oder #Igel #Verletzungen und #Schockzustände erleiden.

Auch Tiere in #Zoos leiden unter den lauten Knallern.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected how humans behaved. But it also had an effect on zoo animals in a variety of ways, including the amount of time they spent resting and eating. @ScienceAlert explains:

https://flip.it/BryEWW

@PeterRu

If that is the life of that tiger, chained inside a cage; death is a sweet relief for it.

For most captive wildlife as well.

#zoos
#wildlife
#BiodiversityLoss

Parrots missing from London zoo found behind Cambridgeshire garden https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/28/parrots-missing-london-zoo-found-cambridgeshire-garden-lily-margot #Environment #Wildlife #Animals #London #UKnews #Birds #Zoos

The Oregon Zoo staff took the elephant around the zoo, she liked sea lions the best!
Read full story: https://hasanjasim.online/elephant-and-sea-lion-encounter-at-oregon-zoo-a-heartwarming-tale/

something I was completely unaware of that they have accommodation for visitors to stay within the wildlife park confines - separated from the #carnivores only by a window. Slightly scary stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/23/wolf-attack-at-french-zoo-leaves-woman-fighting-for-life #zoos #wildlife #science

Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/10/przewalskis-horses-only-wild-species-return-central-asian-steppes-kazakhstan #SouthandcentralAsia #CzechRepublic #Conservation #Lifeandstyle #Environment #Kazakhstan #Worldnews #Animals #Zoology #Science #Horses #Europe #Zoos

Ungefähr zehn Fußballfelder Regenwald pro Minute verschwinden und trotzdem versucht der Mensch, Asiatische Elefanten zu schützen, oder die Oryxantilope. Die eigentlichen Lebensräume verschwinden. Macht das Sinn? Unter anderem danach hat Nano beim #ScienceDate" Severin Dressen gefragt, Zoodirektor in Zürich:
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/240417-3-nano-science-date-severin-dressen-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Mastodon&at_specific=3sat

This is right and good, to move elephants to sanctuary. "Like many institutions, the Louisville Zoo has arrived at a crossroads of tradition and reality. While elephants have been a featured species for most of the Zoo’s 54-year history, our recognition of the species’ complex social structure has evolved dramatically," the zoo said in a news release. #elephants #zoos #animals #animalwelfare #animalrights https://www.wlky.com/article/louisville-zoo-elephants-retiring-leaving/60199764

Flaco, New York City’s beloved owl, dies after striking building

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/24/flaco-new-york-citys-beloved-owl-dies-after-striking-building

This outcome lies, in the first instance, at the feet of the vandal(s) who released the bird from his cage and the ignoramuses who prevented his recapture. But, the WCS and zoos as institutions are not exempt from blame. Creatures such as Flaco should be returned to their proper ecosystems (Flaco was a rescue, but should have been rehabilitated and returned to his environment). Ditto every other animal "attraction" held in a zoo. The argument that such creatures represent insurance against extinction is self-justifying and FALSE. The total zoo population of these animals is a BOTTLENECKED population, an inviable population prone to inbreeding. Worse, this becomes a sop and a funding black-hole as far as actually protecting biodiversity goes, such as initiatives to both restore and conserve habitats, and promote sustainable stewardship of natural resources and land (while respecting indigenous people, who have been the historic and effective stewards of biodiversity). The same is true of arguments that zoos "educate" the public about responsible stewardship and biodiversity conservation. No, they educate the public to normalize caged biodiversity. All of these arguments evade and put a veneer on the fact that zoos, no matter their "non-profit" and "philanthropic" status, are money-making institutions. And living creatures are "attractions."

_The Evening Post_, 9 Feb 1924:
                  KIWI FOR AMERICA
  Among the interesting birds imported into the United Stales last year was a #kiwi shipped from New Zealand for the National Zoological Park at Washington, states the “New York Times.” The Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture issues permits for all shipments of foreign mammals and birds, and inspects them when necessary in order to protect Its country from the introduction of species which may prove injurious to agriculture. The kiwi, which is native only to New Zealand, and even there approaching extinction, rarely is imported into the United States. The present specimen is the first that has been on exhibition in the National Zoological Park for fifteen years. The last shipment was made in January, 1906. One of the birds coming in at that time lived two years.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240209.2.150
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Birds #UnitedStates #Zoos

New on Entomology Today: In a study of mosquitoes in and around the Nashville Zoo, northern cardinals were found to be the most common source of the mosquitoes' blood meals, despite more than 300 species of animals on exhibit. None the less, the study suggests zoos are a valuable resource for monitoring mosquito species diversity, biology, and pathogen presence. #entomology #insects #mosquitoes #VectorBorneDisease #zoos https://entomologytoday.org/2023/09/22/zoo-mosquitoes-local-wild-birds-meals/

PROTECT OUR FORESTS

The #ForestConservationAmendmentBill will put our #ecology severely in danger by #declassifying 197,159 sq. km of #forests, which is 15% of #India ’s forest cover, making it lose protection and leaving it open for destruction through #afforestation, #drilling, replacing forests with #zoos, among other things. It will also exempt a large number of projects from the clearance process

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/scientists-urge-indian-government-to-halt-forest-conservation-amendment-bill-101689706309919.html