Bristol Zoo protest, Monday 17th April- 15 year-old spearheads anti-zoo campaign
Bristol Animal Rights Coalition | 12.04.2006 16:42 | Animal Liberation
A campaign has been launched to oppose Bristol Zoo's plans for expansion in their creation of a 'wildlife park' near Cribs Causeway, as well as to raise awareness thatanimals are not ours to use for entertainment.
15 year-old Lloyd Graham from South Gloucestershire, has helped launch the campaign with the Western Animal Rights Network.
Lloyd, having already started his own animal rights group - SGAR (South Gloucestershire Animal Rights), is working with activists in Bristol to stop the new attraction from being built.
Lloyd says, "Animals are not ours for entertainment in any way. The park portrays itself as an 'eco-zoo' as a centre for endangered species and for the education of the public, but it is little more than a tourist attraction holding animals captive for our entertainment.
Zoos, such as Bristol zoo, put the 'con' in conservation. If the planned £50 million for the new park was spent on real conservation efforts around the world, sustainable change could be achieved.
I am still in school and there are fantastic education initiatives all around the UK that are raising awareness of conservation issues without the unfair use of real live animals. We are asking people to please boycott Bristol zoo."
Lloyd and the group will be holding a demonstration at Bristol Zoo on Monday 17th April, as part of National Zoo Awareness Day, with other actions taking place across the UK, please attend!
SGAR website:
http://www.piczo.com/sgar?cr=3&rfm=y
Captive Aninmals Protection Society website: http://www.captiveanimals.org/
WARN websire: www.warnetwork.org
Lloyd, having already started his own animal rights group - SGAR (South Gloucestershire Animal Rights), is working with activists in Bristol to stop the new attraction from being built.
Lloyd says, "Animals are not ours for entertainment in any way. The park portrays itself as an 'eco-zoo' as a centre for endangered species and for the education of the public, but it is little more than a tourist attraction holding animals captive for our entertainment.
Zoos, such as Bristol zoo, put the 'con' in conservation. If the planned £50 million for the new park was spent on real conservation efforts around the world, sustainable change could be achieved.
I am still in school and there are fantastic education initiatives all around the UK that are raising awareness of conservation issues without the unfair use of real live animals. We are asking people to please boycott Bristol zoo."
Lloyd and the group will be holding a demonstration at Bristol Zoo on Monday 17th April, as part of National Zoo Awareness Day, with other actions taking place across the UK, please attend!
SGAR website:
http://www.piczo.com/sgar?cr=3&rfm=y Captive Aninmals Protection Society website:
http://www.captiveanimals.org/ WARN websire: www.warnetwork.org
Bristol Animal Rights Coalition
e-mail:
barc@hotmail.co.uk
Homepage:
http://www.warnetwork.org
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"wildlife park","nature centre"=euphemisms that blind observation
13.04.2006 12:51
Zoo's are for the conquered species,and are teachers of the merits of domination,part of the anthprocentric empire.
Tim