Harambes Death Who Is To Blame?
AnimalCare 
Jun 3, 2016 
AnimalCare, NGOs 
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Please read this: http://www.care2.com/causes/who-is-really-to-blame-for-the-death-of-harambe-the-gorilla.html
As long as zoos continue to exist, Harambe’s death is all of our fault.
Harambe was a 17-year-old male gorilla born and raised in captivity. He never got to roam the African rainforests where he should have belonged. He never got to eat his meals with other gorillas, climb trees or make nests with leaves they found as a group. He was deprived of all those natural behaviors from the moment he was born.
Most animals in zoos today share a similar story. Zoos claim they’re doing conservation work but it’s understandable to question that when hundreds of these zoo animals are killed every year through zoothanasia — the discarding of animals like Marius, the giraffe, who don’t fit into a breeding program.
Yes, those animals’ deaths are also our fault. And so are the deaths of animals like Hanako, the “world’s loneliest elephant” who recently died at a zoo in Tokyo after 60 years in a concrete enclosure by herself and without any stimulation.
Zoos are a business. They use animals as their product to entertain the public, and as long as the public continues to support them, animals and humans will continue to die. Pointing fingers to who’s to blame in Harambe’s death will not bring him back, but shifting the conversation on the existence of zoos (instead of sanctuaries) in the first place can prevent many other future deaths.
May Harambe’s death inspire change just as Cecil the lion’s did in banning trophy hunting. Please sign and share the Care2 petition demanding that Cincinnati Zoo release its remaining apes to a sanctuary and close its gorilla exhibit for the safety of the public and the animals.
No more trophy hunting. Cecil died because it. So, so many more in the past and even now.
No more zoos, please. Harambe and how many more have died because of it.
Do not support zoos.
Please do not support any industry that abuses animals.
Animals are here WITH us. Not for us.
Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2016/06/03/harambes-death-who-is-to..
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