Over 30 years ago,my late husband, Bill Travers, or travelled across Europe recording evidence of the terrible suffering endured by so many individual creatures in hundreds of zoos. His findings,published as the Zoochotic Report by our charity, then called Zoo Check and now the Born Free Foundation, and led directly to the establishment of EU-wide zoo law (the EC zoos directive). This has provided an aspirational framework to address animal suffering and deprivation but has not improved standards as we had hoped,as evidenced by the Born Free Foundation’s EU Zoo Inquiry 2011.The reality is that millions of animals in zoos, circuses and dolphinariums absorb been let down by inadequate legislation, or destitute law enforcement and lack of both knowledge and capacity at member state level. We urgently need a solution to improve the welfare of not only the captive wild animals in our care,but all animals for which we absorb direct responsibility.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com