The Zoo in the German city of Nuremberg announced that it killed 12 baboons on Tuesday despite the protests of animal rights.
The Tiergarten Nürnberg Zoo first announced plans to kill baboons that it had no room in February 2024. He said he was investigating the offers to accept some animals, but were unable to get none of them.
Plans have triggered criticism from the groups of animal rights. They also drew protests in the zoo, which said on Monday that they had to start preparing to kill baboons. On Tuesday morning, it announced that it was closed for the day for non -specific “operational reasons”.
On Tuesday afternoon, the police said that several activists had forced their way to the premises and several of them were sticking to the ground.
Shortly afterwards, the zoo said it killed 12 baboons, the German press agency DPA reported. Further details were not available immediately. Groups for animal rights have stated that they are planning to file a criminal complaint.
The population of the zoo in Guinean baboons has grown to 43 and was too large for the house built at the end of 2000 for 25 animals plus their young, which led to other conflicts among animals.
The zoo said that it has taken steps to solve the problem in the past, with 16 baboons to move to the Zoo in Paris and China since 2011. These zoo and others in Spain, to which the baboons were previously sent, achieved their own capacity. The attempt at contraception was abandoned a few years ago after failed to achieve the desired results.
Animals are regularly euthanized in European zoos for various reasons. Some past cases caused outrage; For example, one in 2014, in which Copenhagen Zoo killed a healthy two -year -old giraffe, defeated his carcase in front of the crowd, which included children, and then fed it to the Lions.
(Tagstotranslate) Tiergarten Nürnberg Zoo pavions
