Indignation after the German zoo shot on baboons, fed them with predators during Cull – National
A German zoo sparked indignation after pulling 12 healthy Guinea baboons during a slaughter, intended to feed their remains to other predators in the establishment.
The slaughter occurred at the Tiergarten Nürnberg zoo in Nuremberg on Tuesday, one day after the zoo said that it would start preparations to kill animals.
The zoo had previously announced in February 2024 that it planned to shoot down certain animals due to overcrowding, reports the BBC. At the time, they declared that the establishment’s capacity for around 25 primates was far exceeded, its population of Babound rising at 40 years.
The conflict between animals had become “more frequent” in the enclosure due to an excess of animals, which caused injury by baboons, officials in DW News said.
In an article on social networks, the zoo claimed to have tried to move some of the animals to other zoos that had taken their animals in the past, including zoos in Paris and China, but these installations were also at full capacity.
They also declared that the contraceptive measures given to the baboons had failed, giving them no other option than to euthanize some of their animals, reports the Associated Press.
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Tuesday morning, the zoo announced that it was closed for the day for “operational reasons” not specified.
That afternoon, police said that seven activists had climbed on a wall in the zoo, and a woman had stuck her hands on the ground. The group was held a few meters inside the entrance.
The demonstrators of the rebellion of animals are arrested by the police after entering the park of the Nuremberg zoo.
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The disturbance of activists did not prevent the reduction from moving forward. Deputy Director of the Zoo, Jörg Beckmann, confirmed that 12 baboons had been chosen and slaughtered. He said that none of the selected animals was pregnant women or part of the studies.
The Associated Press reports that samples of dead animals have been taken and that the bodies of baboons will be offered as food to other predators of the zoo.
Dag Encke, director of the Nuremberg zoo, speaks at a press conference after the Nuremberg zoo killed 12 baboons.
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Zoo director Dag Encke told a press conference that murders had followed “a consideration of several years”. He argued that they had become necessary to maintain a healthy population because having a group that had exceeded its homes and could not be reduced by other means pushed the zoo in conflict with the laws on the protection of animals.
Animal rights groups are exasperated by slaughter. At least one threatened to continue the zoo.
“What we fear would happen,” said Pro Wildlife to Dw News, saying that he had filed a criminal complaint against the zoo for violating animal protection laws. “Healthy animals had to be killed because the zoo has maintained irresponsible and unsustainable reproduction policies for decades.”
“This slaughter was avoidable and illegal in our opinion,” said the group.
“The laws on animal welfare only allow the murder of vertebrates if there is a reasonable cause,” said Christoph Maisack, who directs the German premises The Jurical Association for Animal Protection Law (DJGT), said the point of sale, adding: “let them reproduce too freely cannot constitute such a reason.”
Animals are regularly euthanized in European zoos for various reasons. Some past cases have caused an uproar; In 2014, the Copenhagen zoo killed a two -year -old healthy giraffe named Marius, broadcast the butcher’s shop of his carcass live in front of a crowd which included children, then fed him in the lions.
– With a file from the Associated Press
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