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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRescuers Make the Saddest Discovery at Seaside Resort
Last edited Wed Apr 26, 2017, 07:02 PM - Edit history (1)
By: Alicia Graef April 25, 2017 (Video at bottom)
The tourism industry has taken some big steps to stop the exploitation of wild animals, but a recent rescue effort has highlighted how much more needs to be done on our part to help stop the illegal wildlife trade.
After receiving reports of 17 endangered slow lorises being kept in deplorable conditions as an attraction for visitors at a resort in West Borneo, wildlife officials and rescuers from International Animal Rescue (IAR) headed to the scene to help.
Unfortunately, there were only ten lorises when they arrived. Of those, only seven were alive, while the bodies of the three who had died had been left to rot in their enclosure.
They had been to a small area with only three trees, and despite being shy and nocturnal animals, they were subjected to spotlights at night so visitors could view them.
FULL story: http://www.care2.com/causes/rescuers-make-the-saddest-discovery-at-seaside-resort.html
For more information, visit: https://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/news/grim-discovery-during-operation-rescue-endangered-slow-lorises
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Rescuers Make the Saddest Discovery at Seaside Resort (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2017
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Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)1. Wow, no words
N/T
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)2. What ever happened to us?
StarryNite
(9,445 posts)3. So sick of animals being exploited.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)4. What about getting in so you can take pictures to take to
the authorities? I would want to give them proof that these animals are there and need help. This is so horrible.
malaise
(268,998 posts)5. Time for other animals to resist
and make human's pay.
panader0
(25,816 posts)6. Make humans prey.
malaise
(268,998 posts)7. Some of us deserve to be prey
for other animals.