Tuesday, 31 July 2018

'Animals remain behind bars': the broken promises of Buenos Aires Zoo

After it was announced in 2016 the zoo would become an ecopark, 119 animals have died, leaving activists to feel little has changed

When the mayor of Buenos Aires announced in 2016 that the Argentinian capital’s 140-year-old zoo was to be shut down and redeveloped as an ecopark, animal welfare campaigners heaved a collective sigh of relief.

But after a string of animal fatalities at the former zoo, there is growing consternation among members of the public and activists that nothing has changed.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2mWTLil

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