A Step In The Right Direction: Buenos Aires Zoo Is Closing

The news: http://www.care2.com/causes/buenos-aires-zoo-is-closing-after-140-years-for-an-awesome-reason.html

In another huge win for captive animals, Buenos Aires will be be shutting down its 140-year-old zoo. The area will reopen later this year as an ecopark.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the mayor of Argentina’s capital city, made the announcement, saying that today the zoo generates more sadness than joy.

“This situation of captivity is degrading for the animals, it’s not the way to take care of them,” he said at a ceremony last week, reported The Guardian. “What we have to value is the animals. The way they live here is definitely not the way to do that.”
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Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2016/06/29/a-step-in-the-right-dire..

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