Appeal to improve the living conditions of Animals in Ghamadan Zoo Petition

Appeal to improve the living conditions of Animals in Ghamadan Zoo Petition

Background (Preamble):

I walked in to Gamdan Zoo today and the first thing that struck me immediately was the foul smell. The zoo was deserted due to the current heat wave.

The temperature when I entered the zoo had reached 45C. Once I had paid the 500 fils entrance fee and walked into the gates, I was really saddened to see that most of the animals living in captivity do not have 1% of the living conditions you would see in their natural habitat. This what I saw a visitor to Ghamadan Zoo:

1- A Bear living on cement floors. Bears are wild animals, and should have a suitable environment like nearby water source for their physical and mental wellbeing.

2- Wild cats, the zoo has a good number of lions, tigers and two leopards in cages not big enough for them to roam and run freely as they do in the wild.

3- Shockingly, the zoo can be considered an uncontrolled breeding facility for pets, there are Persian kitten and cats only few feet away for the wild cat cages , Dalmatians, French terrier with a severe case of matted hair and worst of all, Siberian husky dogs and puppies, that naturally live in colder environments but here they are living in a cage in this scorching heat.

4- Monkeys have no tree for them to climb up onto. Every single decent and acclaimed zoo in the world provides trees and climbing apparatus to their monkeys. Surely this is obvious?

This type of zoo kills any and all basic natural instinct those exotic animals have. Would you take your family to visit this zoo? Kids visiting the zoo think it is how animals live, many of them wrote to animal activists feeling stressed by what they saw.

This petition has been prepared to urge the Ministry of Agriculture to force the zoo owner to seek consultation with the required experts and zoologists in order to change the zoo to one that meets the minimum requirements of the natural living conditions of those animals.

Would you take your family to see animals in Ghamadan Zoo?

Ghamadan zoo is not a good advert for Amman and is a bad reflection of Jordan to international and local visitors.

Pictures speak louder then words, please check this site for pictures taken of the zoo.

http://picasaweb.google.com/103187155557343633549/GhamdanZooPicturesTaken2Aug2010

Here is a link with detailed info about the zoo condition since 2007, please take the time to read it.
http://jo.jo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1133%3Aa-zoo-story&catid=39%3Aland&Itemid=150&limitstart=1

Appeal to improve the living conditions of Animals in Ghamadan Zoo Petition

Free Mali the Elephant From Manila Zoo

Free Mali at PETAAsiaPacific.com.

http://www.petaasiapacific.com/feature-free-mali.asp

Sign the Petition: Stop More Animals From Suffering at the Manila Zoo

Free Mali


Mali needs to be retired without delay. The Elephant Sanctuary in the U.S. can offer elephants vast spaces to roam, ponds to bathe in, fresh vegetation, foraging opportunities, and the company of many other elephants.


http://action.petaasiapacific.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=110&ea.campaign.id=2904&ea.param.extras=ea_source_code:papadvmalimza~c=papmalimza

Free Mali the Elephant From Manila Zoo

Don't Kill Boston's Zoo Animals!

Governor Deval Patrick, in a line item veto of the proposed 2010 budget for Massachusetts, cut funding for the Franklin Park Zoo (New England's largest zoo) and the Stoneham Zoo by over 61%, from 6.5 million to only 2.5 milliom. According to Zoo New England, which manages the zoos, such drastic cuts could force the zoos to close, and as many of 20% of the animals currently at the zoos could be killed because officials are unlikely to find new homes for them. (Read more in the Boston Globe)

It would be a travesty and an outrage for the state of Massachusetts to allow these animals to be killed because of budget difficulties. We know that economic times are tough - but these are innocent animals, confined to these zoos by humans. These animals should not suffer for our inability to manage our money.

Whatever your feelings are about zoos, please stand up for the lives of these animals and insist that the state of Massachusetts either restore the funds for the zoos immediately or ensure that ALL animals are relocated to sanctuaries to allow these majestic creatures to live out their lives in peace.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/savebostonsanimals

Don't Kill Boston's Zoo Animals!

Send Lucy to the Tennesse Elephant sanctuary - The Petition Site

Send Lucy to the Tennesse Elephant sanctuary - The Petition Site

take action! the free lucy campaign!you can help give her a new life
Please support the Zoocheck Canada/Voice for Animals campaign to relocate Lucy, the sole remaining elephant at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, to the Elephant Sanctuary, a world renowned 2,700 acre natural habitat elephant facility, in Tennessee.
With the transfer of Samantha, a female African elephant, to the North Carolina Zoo in 2007, Lucy has been alone. She is overweight, suffering from chronic arthritis and foot problems, lethargic and displays prolonged periods of abnormal stereotypic behaviours, such as rocking and swaying.
Elephants, particularly females, are highly social animals that live in matriarchal family groups for most, if not all, of their lives. They should never be kept alone.
With the 2008 transfer of Maggie, a female elephant at the Alaska Zoo, to a sanctuary in California, Lucy is now the most northerly and socially isolated elephant on the continent.
The Valley Zoo has stated that it has no plans to move Lucy, that she is not a social elephant and that she is fine where she is. Not only are these statements contrary to everything that is known about the biology and behaviour of elephants, it also is contrary to Alberta's own zoo regulations which require that animals be kept in appropriate social environments.
The Valley Zoo also claims a mal-positioned molar in association with another medical condition make it dangerous to move Lucy, but they ignore the fact that elephants, many with serious health issues, are routinely moved from facility to facility and have been for more than 150 years.
The Edmonton Valley Zoo is municipally-owned and operated, so the City of Edmonton has the authority to determine how the zoo operates and what decisions are made.
Please write to the City of Edmonton Mayor and Members of Council, to let them know that you want Lucy moved to The Elephant Sanctuary as soon as possible. Tell them that Lucy should not be kept alone; that Edmonton is too cold for elephants; that the zoo's elephant exhibit is too small; and that keeping Lucy is in contravention of Alberta's zoo regulations.
Please add your signature to the petition which will be sent to Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel.

Send Lucy to the Tennesse Elephant sanctuary - The Petition Site

ZOO - TRAFFIC OF WILD ANIMALS, RESCUED IN A BRAZILIAN ZOO

ZOO - TRAFFIC OF WILD ANIMALS, RESCUED IN A BRAZILIAN ZOO

Some week ago, OIPA received a report about a traffic of wild animals in the Goiânia zoo, capital of the State of Goiás, Brazil. Goiânia seems the center of abuse on animals: this is the second time that OIPA informs the world about the cruelty on animals in this Brazilian city.This report arrived us by Maria de Lourdes França Rabelo, President of the association in defense of environment “Biodefesa” (www.biodefesa.org.br).Maria de Lourdes was the Director of Environment Education for the zoo, she was exempt because she was going to fight the traffic of wild animals. The president of the ONG Biodefesa, said that since some years the animals die or disappear. In a message sent to OIPA, she states: “In a week, I have seen traffic of animals in the light of the day: into a trunk or crammed over a lorry. I was able to verify that there was not a regular permission from Ibama (Brazilian Environmental Institute for Natural Resources). During the night the traffic is intensified, there were 150 parrots into a big enclosure that disappeared during a night. There were more than 4.000 animals into the zoo, today there are about 200. I were able to take some pictures about ill-treatments, I have got a cd with evidences of a traffic of toucans and snakes. I have documentation about the death of more tha 17 cobras in only one day. The worse thing was to discover that during one day 42 animals died”.

The latest event that shocked people in Goiânia was the mysterious death of a ippopotamo in the zoo, it comed after the mysterious death of a pantera, and the disappearance of 4 chimpanzees.The Director of the zoo, Rafael Cupertino, doesn’t give explanations about the facts and the President of “Biodefesa” thinks that animals are died after being sold such as stuff for collectors and she suspects that the bodies are used for the traffic of drugs. In the letter she said that she did all the reports to the Brazilian Public authorities , (Prefecture of Goiânia, Public Department, Ibama Institute and Federal Police) but they were not interested into the matter .Maria de Lourdes charges mainly, an Official of the Public Department that has the evidences but refuses to take measures. This Official was not interested in animals. In a second moment the Official said to a local paper “Diário da Manhã” that she never saw abuses into the zoo. The photos show, without doubt, the abuses that are perpetrated on the animals.Please, send a mail to the Brazilian authorities and ask them to investigate on the reports done about the traffic of wild animals in Goiânia zoo and ask them to investigate about the death of animals; people who abuse animals have to be prosecuted.

ZOO - TRAFFIC OF WILD ANIMALS, RESCUED IN A BRAZILIAN ZOO

Animal Rights - Change.org: Help The Bronx Zoo's Animals and Workers

Animal Rights - Change.org: Help The Bronx Zoo's Animals and Workers

New York City's historic Bronx Zoo is suffering heavy funding cuts from both city and state government. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget cuts will drop the city's contribution to the zoo by $1.7 million, while reductions and cuts from other levels of state government will cost the zoo another $13.3 million in support.
The WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society)'s zoo administrators have already decided to close The World of Darkness exhibit, home to all manner of nocturnal animals, (including bats, caimans, porcupines, night monkeys, and others) as well as the Rare Animal Range and exhibits of the blesbok and Arabian oryx.
The animals will be relocated, but any such moves will be traumatic. And what of the zoo employees, forty of whom have already lost their unionized jobs?
The Bronx Zoo's animals need their homes as well as their caretakers, and children and adults have a right to visit and learn about all the zoo's creatures, not just the most "popular" ones.

Animal Rights - Change.org: Help The Bronx Zoo's Animals and Workers

Marjorie's Cause - The Petition Site

Marjorie's Cause - The Petition Site: "This is a topic very dear to my heart. In Ontario, Canada there are no rules or regulations controlling zoos and wildlife display"

Marjorie's Cause - The Petition Site

Petition: Animal neglect in Buenos Aires zoo. - The Petition Site

Petition: Animal neglect in Buenos Aires zoo. - The Petition Site: "In November 2008 we traveled in Argentina and visited the Zoo in Buenos Aires. We were shocked to see the great wiled animals normally living in groups - locked in small solitary cages.


The chimpanzee is the one that we can%u2019t forget. She is locked in a tiny cement and glass prison, leaning on the glass window with a clear expression of slow death. She gave up hope. She gave up life."

Petition: Animal neglect in Buenos Aires zoo. - The Petition Site