Covid-19 pushes Southeast Asian zoo animals to ‘brink of starvation’
A Fire and Rescue Department personnel interacting with a giraffe at Zoo Negara when carrying out disinfection works on April 17. Zoo animals in Southeast Asia have been pushed to the brink of starvation, with zookeepers forced to consider worst-case scenarios where they may have to choose which animals should die first. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, April 30, 2020.
THOUSANDS of animals, including endangered Sumatran tigers and Bornean orangutans, are facing starvation at Indonesia’s zoos as the Covid-19 pandemic pushes shuttered facilities toward collapse, officials say. Some 60 cash-strapped animal parks – home to roughly 70,000 creatures – across the Southeast Asian archipelago have been closed since mid-March and most say they have only enough food until the middle of May.
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