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Fundraising Appeal to Save Lions


Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 113 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A wildlife park near Doncaster has launched a fundraising campaign to bring 14 lions from a Romanian zoo. Yorkshire Wildlife Park says it needs to raise £150,000 to transfer the lions from the country's Oradea Zoo.
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Angie W. (286)
Monday August 31, 2009, 2:30 am
Shame they do not have a link to send donations too xx
 

Angie W. (286)
Monday August 31, 2009, 4:37 am
Found one and donated xx
 

mary f. (78)
Monday August 31, 2009, 12:50 pm
thanks maria
 

marilyn s. (116)
Monday August 31, 2009, 2:29 pm
Angie, please send me the link since you are the smart one...so I can forward it on...that is, If it comes through my messages..

Thanks Maria, Noted with total sorrow and will be praying hard for these creatures...

Sobbing...to much bad news for me to handle for now.
 

Candi Ausman (55)
Monday August 31, 2009, 3:06 pm
Here's the link. 5 pounds (GBP) = $8.37 US.

http://www.lionrescue.co.uk/


 

Bee Hive Lady (336)
Monday August 31, 2009, 3:46 pm
Thanks Candi for the link and thank you Maria for the news
 

Jeanette Steffi G. (131)
Monday August 31, 2009, 7:00 pm
Thanks Maria!
 

Mandi T. (267)
Monday August 31, 2009, 9:53 pm
Thank you Maria and Candi for the link Made a donation!xx
 

Michelle E. (22)
Monday August 31, 2009, 11:42 pm
Noted
 

Peter Dickinson (0)
Wednesday September 2, 2009, 1:12 am
As a zoo professional I thought I should add my own take on this story which I previously expressed in Zoo News Digest blog:
'Save the Lions'....sorry. I appreciate and understand the thoughts and emotions but let us be realistic about this. These 14 lions in a Romanion Zoo would be far better euthanased than brought to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. As a commercial exercise yes, it will be a whizz, and is sure to bring in thousands of visitors to see the 'saved' animals and make a lot of money. But they are being saved for what? They should never be bred. They are of zero value to any conservation programme. All they are going to do is take up space that could be productively used for a something else. True enough there is an opportunity to educate but on its own that is not enough and certainly not a reason to bring these animals to the UK. Euthanasia is not cruel, unkind or painful. It is a realistic consideration and something applied to thousands of homeless cats and dogs in the UK each year. It make me very angry when I see newspapers using emotional rubbish words like SHOT (their capitals) and 'execution'. The kindest option....really....really is to put the animals peacefully to sleep where they are. Not that my thoughts on the matter make a remotest bit of difference but I think that The Yorkshire Wildlife Park should step back from this deal and think for a moment. Is this conservation? Is it?

 
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