Stop breeding animals for display!
Transition to a park with animatronic animals: The Future is Now
Batu is an orangutan born at the Philadelphia Zoo in 2009 to be bred and displayed for human visitors. She will never experience her native habitat of North Sumatra. In May 2021, she was separated from her family and shipped cross country to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle WA. She will be bred with a male orangutan to produce more orangutans for display in various zoos.
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Do you like going to the zoo?
Why? Please consider that what you see as harmless family entertainment involves exploiting animals who did not choose to be denied most every natural instinct to be put on display for you.
Since the eye-opening documentary ‘Blackfish’, the world has awakened to the cruelty of keeping marine animals confined to tanks, and now zoos are under fire for their similar inadequate enclosures and misguided breeding of exotic animal species.
The documentary The Conservation Game, now streaming, further highlights the problems with confining intelligent, sensitive animals outside of their natural habitats and the consequences of breeding more for display
“America’s First Zoo”
The Philadelphia Zoo bills itself as the nation’s first zoo, but is that a good thing, or is it still stuck in the past? The Philly Zoo is also one of the smallest in the country – displaying 1300 animals on just 42 acres, with much of the space taken up with entertainment attractions for human visitors including a beer garden, gift shops, swan boat rides and a carousel.
It’s time for change
Our vision is to turn the Philadelphia Zoo into a world-class center that other zoos may emulate, including transitioning the Zoo from an assortment of captive-bred exotic live animals on display to a humane alternative featuring animatronic animals (similar to the “Staying Power: Be Distinct, or Go Extinct” animatronic dinosaur exhibit on display summer 2023 at the Philadelphia Zoo).
There is already movement worldwide in this direction. For example, a hyper-realistic animatronic dolphin is now available for a “swimming with the dolphins” experience that doesn’t harm a single cetacean, and the 140-year old, 44-acre Buenos Aires Zoo, similarly sized to the 42 acre Philadelphia Zoo, has transitioned to a ecopark. The 2,500 animals previously confined there were moved to nature reserves.
We reached out to the new Philadelphia Zoo CEO, Jo-Elle Mogerman, who did not acknowledge our message. Now it’s time to bring it to the people and patrons of the zoo! The future is now.