The Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia is referred to as the “Zoo of Death” due to the devastating conditions animals endure. Also known as Kebun Binatang Surabaya, it was founded 98 years ago and is the one of the largest zoos in South East Asia.
For only $1 per ticket, visitors can view thousands of emaciated exotic animals in their horrific living conditions.
Roughly
25 animals die at Surabaya every month from
unnatural causes, mostly
starvation.
Kliwon the
giraffe died with a 40lb wad of plastic the size of a beach ball in its stomach. Rozek the
tiger starved to death after his digestive tract rotted away from being fed meat laced with formaldehyde. Many other of the large carnivores have been starved and malnutritioned for so long that their bodies can no longer absorb any nutrition. Michael the African
Lion was found hanging inside its cage having been strangled by a steel cable.
[read an article here]
Those who are not euthanized are starving, and those that do die are rumored to have their
most valuable body parts sold.
What can you do to
save these animals? You can sign the petitions
here and
here.
You can stay updated on the progressive fight to save these neglected animals by giving Cee4Life your support
[they managed to save Melani the tiger, pictured at the top of the thread] via their Facebook
here and their official website
here.
This is heartbreaking and although stories have been reported over the past few months, I had no idea about it
