A zoo in the southern German city of Nurnberg has closed 12 healthy guinea Babun due to congestion in its enclosure, after which they were fed to poachers.
Seven animal rights activists were arrested on Tuesday after entering the Tierrton Nurnberg zoo to protest against the verdict. A woman pasted her hands on the ground near the entrance.
The congestion caused the “increase in conflicts” between the babun and they could not be found any alternative to the residence again, the zoo said.
Christoff Massack, head of the German Legal Association for Animal Protection Law, stated that to allow animals to breed very independently “could not become such a reason for their assassination”.
The zoo in Nurnberg announced a plan to kill some guinea Babun last year, its population exceeding 40 – more than 25 that could be kept by a complex completed in 2009.
The zoo said that the zoo in other countries, which was previously sent to Babun, had also reached capacity and contraceptive measures had failed to slow down population growth, the zoo said.
On Tuesday morning, the zoo announced that it was closing for “operational reasons”, triggering the protesters to climb the zoo fence near the entrance, where they were arrested.
Later, the zoo confirmed that it had killed Babun – none of which were part of pregnant women or scientific studies. Animals were shot, samples were taken for research purposes, then their body was fed to zoo predators.
The zoo director, Dan Dag EnK stated that the decision came after the “years of view”, and that the glimpse of the animals could be “valid final measures to preserve the population”.
EnK said that the action was in line with the criteria set by the European Association of Zos and Aquaria (Eaja).
Animal rights groups have filed a criminal complaint against the zoo, which were in “right health”.
A spokesperson of the Pro Wildlife said that the decision was “avoidable and illegal”, saying: “Healthy animals had to be killed because the zoo had maintained non -reservations and unstable reproductive policies for decades.”
European zoos have created controversy to raise animals first.
In 2014, in a zoo Copenhagen crushed a giraffe – Name Marius – Because his genes were very close to other giraffes in the reproductive program of the zoo.
A post -mortem of giraffe – during which the body was brightened, was cut and then the lions were fed – Live online broadcast,
