Fair play to Yorkshire Wildlife Park....

For trying to re-home and save the life of Marius, a healthy 18th month old 'surplus' male giraffe which has been killed, dissected and fed to lions in front of children and the media. By Copenhagen zoo, in the name of 'conservation and education'.

Copenhagen didn't even respond to Yorkshire's offer to take the animal immediately, at their own expense and despite having the finest giraffe paddock in Europe, with a space for a young male. Shame on them.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935

 

Yet in England its ok to destroy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-26108506

 

And thats not a go at MR C .
There is the same thing happen closer to home too.

 

Why was he surplus?

 

Of course it isn't. Don't even get me started on Longleat.

 

To avoid in-breeding and they don't have the capacity to house another male of the same bloodline. Zoos regularly exchange animals for this reason, hence the offer from Yorkshire who actually need a young male.

 

I don't understand. Paul's simply highlighted what he feels is wrong with the actions of Copenhagen Zoo. Just because that's happened at Longleat doesn't make the goings on in Copenhagen right.

 

The difference is no-one would take the Longleat lions. And there's a reason for that, they have never adequately managed their breeding programmes and some of their cats are inbred and violent due to high numbers. The Copenhagen giraffe had several offers of a new home.

I could post things all day long on these subjects. I shared this story as it is of local interest.

 

Like I said Mr C it wasn't a go at you I saw the news on the BBC and wanted to say it was happening in UK too.

In fact it happens all over the world and its Barbaric.
If the new borns are surplus why cant they release them back into the wild.
Or would that be barbaric too.

 

they should not be in a ZOO in the first place for me Paul

the only place they should be is in their natural habitat, I will concede the point for perhaps endangered species, but other than that no. I cannot believe that Giraffes are endangered right now. As far as I am concerened Zoos, Safari parks (loke Longleat/Windsor) Sea World type places too, totally obscene. I will again say that a safe haven for endangered species is maybe a different case. I also agree with rescue animals , Monkey World in Dorset for example.

 

THANKS for that.
It brings a whole new debate up in should we have zoos and wildlife parks in the first place.
Going back to Longleat, wouldnt this happen in the wild too,or not.
I admit to not knowing much on the subject.
But when magnificent animals are been destroyed it enrages.

 

Was the giraffe born in their zoo MR C?

 

I've never visited the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, but I'm definitely going to change that this year.

 

well tha'd better keep clear of the Orange- U-tans matey

tha nivver knows what could happen theer

 

"Giraffes today breed very well, and when they do you have to choose and make sure the ones you keep are the ones with the best genes," Mr Holst told the BBC.
He said all zoos had been considered and there was no place for Marius - including at Yorkshire where, he said, any space should be reserved for a genetically more important giraffe.

What's a genetically more important giraffe? What was he implying about the genes of this particular giraffe?

 

Re: well tha'd better keep clear of the Orange- U-tans matey

At least I won't be mistaken for an Oompa Loompa!

 

oyyy do not make me draw missen up to my FULL hight...

It could turn ugly yer know !!!

 

I could swamp this board with stories of animal abuse, but I don't think it would be appreciated. This concerned Yorkshire Wildlife Park specifically, so is of local interest to people who read the board and take an interest in animal welfare. If they had offered to take the lions, I may have posted that.

 

Took my niece last year and we both enjoyed the day. She wanted to see all the 'aminals'. We did too, but her idea of seeing all the 'aminals' involved staring at one of them for 5 seconds then saying 'can we see another aminals now'?