There were still analyzes to offers to welcome the animals, but none of them resulted
A zoo in the German city of Nuremberg confirmed that he killed 12 babo this Tuesday, despite the protests, ending a rooted saga in concerns that he had very little room to house a growing animal group.
The Tiergarten Zoo of Nuremberg announced for the first time in February 2024, plans to slaughter baboons for which it had no space. The zoo said it has examined offers to welcome some of the animals, but could not make any of them.
The plans raised criticism from animal rights defense groups. They also caused protests in the zoo, which said on Monday that he would have to start preparing to kill baboons. After that, the space announced the closure of the day by unpashed “operational reasons”.
On Tuesday afternoon, police said several activists forced the entrance to the venue, some of them gifted to the ground before they were detained.
Shortly thereafter, the zoo reported that it had killed 12 baboons, according to the German news agency DPA. No more details were not disclosed. Animal rights groups said they intend to present a criminal complaint.
The population of Babuíos da Guinea of the Zoo had increased to 43 and was too large for a house built in the late 2000s to 25 animals and their young, which led to more conflicts among animals.
The zoo said it had taken measures in the past to solve the problem, with the transfer of 16 baboons to zoos in Paris and China since 2011. But these zoos gardens, and another in Spain where the baboins were sent earlier, had reached their capacity. An attempted contraception was abandoned several years ago, after not producing the desired results.
Animals are regularly subjected to euthanasia in the European zoological gardens for a number of reasons. In 2014, for example, the Copenhaga Zoo killed a healthy two-year giraffe, quartered its carcass in front of a crowd that included children and then gave it to the lions.
