Nuremberg Tiergarten Zoo plans to kill healthy Guinea Baboons

[Catherine]

Protesters chained themselves to the Baboon cages because the zoo plans to kill healthy baboons.
They claim that there is an overcrowding problem. Up until now killing healthy primates has not been allowed. This crosses a line that allows for a lot of other abuses.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/a...pe=article

The zoo should not have let the baboons breed if they did not have room for them. It was their responsibility to know how many animals they could provide for.

Letting them kill healthy animals is unacceptable. In particular letting them kill healthy primates is totally wrong. We can never find that an acceptable action.
Whatever they do they need to find or provide suitable accommodation for the baboons. I am glad the protestors have brought this to our attention.

[Catherine]

They went ahead and killed the Baboons. Protestors tried to stop them, but they were determined.


https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/zoo...6cd&ei=146


They closed the zoo the day they killed the baboons. That is an admission that you know you are doing wrong. If what you are doing is okay, why did you want to hide it from the public. There needs to be an oversight of animal management. How did they let the baboons over populate so much. Twelve animals over capacity didn't just happen. They were not babies either. So they kept them while they were cute babies. It is when they grew up that they wanted to be rid of them. They better not have a set of new cute babies next  year.