Dublin Zoo orangutan escapes enclosure after 24 years

dublin | animal rights | opinion/analysis Thursday April 03, 2008 11:39 by Bernie Wright - Alliance for Animal Rights allianceforanimalrights at gmail dot com AFAR. PO Box 4734. Dublin1.

Statement regarding Dublin Zoo Orangutan escape.

The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) is saddened by hearing of the Oranutan Maggie's bid to find freedom yesterday even to the point of leaving her baby ' The understandably frustrated animal has been confined in an enclosure for 24 years, more than the length of a sentence that would be imposed on a human for the crime of murder.

Zoos are but Prisons to non human animals, yet they have not committed any crime. Those in captivity are driven insane, deprived of a natural life and are basically kept imprisoned for life so that our species can amuse themselves.

Zoos are a throwback to the menageries of Victorian times. They should be abolished in this day and age as they are cruel and archaic.

Just like blacks are not made for whites nor are women made for men these animals are not on this planet to serve humans. Its their world too.'

Bernie Wright spokesperson AFAR.

· Other animals like the two Polar Bears in the Dublin Zoo were driven insane in their enclosure.

· A girl was mauled by a Tiger in 2006.

· Another animal was shot dead when also making a bid for freedom some years ago(Rhino??)

· Sealions went blind and penguins died from toxins .

Bernie Wright,.spokesperson AFAR.

087 2651720.