In zoos, when someone no longer fits available space or breeding plans, they may be labelled ‘surplus’ and killed by zoos or transferred away. Families are disrupted, and individuals pay with their lives.
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Animals in zoos and aquariums are individuals with their own needs, relationships, routines and choices. Behind the glass, those choices are stripped away.
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Birds of prey are suffering in UK zoos - tethered, controlled, and denied their basic right to fly. This isn’t education. It’s captivity.
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Fishes and rays are wide-ranging individuals who navigate complex seas, sense Earth’s magnetic fields and communicate in ways we’re only starting to understand. A tank can’t meet those needs.
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Breeding & buying more individuals keeps cages full, not habitats safe. “Education” built on bars teaches that animals are exhibits, when they’re somebody with needs we can’t meet in captivity.
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Are people waking?
BBC reports many British zoos are struggling to survive. When a business depends on tickets and “new attractions”, it’s the individuals in cages who pay the price.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8749lwl8jvo
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Born beautiful. Born rare. Born behind bars.
This baby leopard faces a lifetime in captivity, never knowing the wild they belong to. This is not conservation, it is exploitation!
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Zoos use pinioning. They amputate the end of one wing when a chick is just days old to stop birds flying and keep them on display. It is permanent.
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Captivity harms elephants: shorter lives, stress, tiny spaces. In July 2024, Avani (7) and Zinda (8) died from EEHV at Dublin Zoo. Stand with us to end this.
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Giraffes travel long distances and live in complex family groups. No enclosure can match their need for space, movement and choice. They deserve freedom.
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Birds are born to fly and choose their own lives, not stand tethered for display. Captivity takes away flight, space and choice. No enclosure can meet their needs. They belong in the sky, not on a perch.
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Across England, animals are transported in crates, displayed, and handled for mobile zoo events.
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Aquariums exploit individuals. Fishes, rays, turtles, crabs and many more, all for entertainment.
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Our investigation, Tether and Torment 2, exposes ongoing suffering of birds of prey in UK zoos.
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Across the UK, birds of prey in zoos are tethered for hours and used in daily shows. They can’t fly freely, choose where to go, or live as birds do. This is exploitation, not education.
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Hands-on isn’t harmless. Being passed around and touched by crowds is stressful for reptiles and can cause injury. Handling sessions also teach children that individuals are objects.
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Animals are individuals, not photo props. Street ‘displays’ and mobile shows keep birds tethered for hours, handled by strangers and exposed to noise and crowds. This isn’t education. It is exploitation.
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In zoos, when someone no longer fits available space or breeding plans, they may be labelled ‘surplus’ and killed by zoos or transferred away. Families are disrupted, and individuals pay with their lives.
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Behind the glass, individuals live in small, barren spaces that can never meet their needs. Many show stress behaviours, pacing, rocking, because captivity harms minds and bodies.
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Our investigation documents barren pens, limited water & shelter, routine tethering, coercive training, minimal chance to fly, & birds bred & sold into private hands. This isn’t education, it’s exploitation.
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In most cases, they can’t.
Zoos and 'wildlife' parks use different methods to stop birds from flying:
🦴 Pinioning – a painful surgical procedure where part of their wing is removed when they are very young, permanently preventing flight.
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For animals like crocodiles, life behind glass means tiny tanks, barren surroundings and no chance to roam, or choose where to go. They are not living displays.
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