We’ve been horrified by the photos and videos from the Kebun Binatang Bantung Zoo – nicknamed the “death zoo”- where many of the animals are starved to death, ill or injured and left untreated, and housed in overcrowded filthy cages. This latest heartbreaking video below shows emaciated bears walking around on broken concrete and begging visitors for food.
UK Express Another Sumatran tiger has died at the notorious Indonesian zoo. where hundreds of them tigers, lions, giraffes, and more have perished prematurely in recent years because of neglect and abusive conditions.
The male tiger, named Rama, died of heart failure at the zoo in the city of Surabaya, on the main island of Java, spokeswoman Veronika Lanu said. Lanu defended the zoo after Rama’s death, insisting proper procedures had been followed surrounding the Sumatran tiger, which is a critically endangered species. “The death was due to natural causes, we provided the best care we could,” she said.
Surabaya Zoo has been dubbed the “death zoo” as so many animals have allegedly died there prematurely because of neglect. A giraffe died with 20kg of plastic bags in its stomach; where a Sumatran tiger’s digestive tract rotted away after it was routinely fed formaldehyde-laced meat; where an 18-month old lion got his head stuck between steel cables in his cage and strangled to death.
Following his death, it now has only three male Sumatran tigers and six females left. The management of Surabaya zoo, Indonesia’s largest, has been taken over by the city administration, but the deaths have not stopped and animal welfare groups continue to call for its closure.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the Sumatran tiger as an endangered species.
UK Daily Mail The world’s cruellest zoo has claimed another victim after an African lion was found hanging in its cage, it emerged today. The Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia, which has outraged readers around the world after an expose on the treatment of its animals, is being investigated by police following the death of the 18-month-old lion called Michael. But the lion’s body was removed before police were able to examine it and cannot now be found.
In the wake of Michael the lion’s death, zoo spokesman Agus Supangkat denied that his death was caused by zookeepers’ negligence. ‘We are still investigating how the steel cables could entrap the African lion’s head,’ he told the Globe. ‘Michael was relatively young. He was only one and a half years old.
A MailOnline investigation into the zoo before Christmas found numerous cases of animals living in miserable conditions, including a young elephant that was chained by three legs, one of which was ulcerated because of its tight shackles.
Dozens of petitions were started pleading for the zoo to be closed and animal rights groups have added their voice to the demands. But a management team, headed by the Surabaya Mayor, Mrs Tri Rismaharini, has resisted improvements saying they want to retain the original structures erected by Dutch colonialists in 1916.
UK Daily Mail The young elephant has tugged at his shackled hind leg so often that the manacles have cut through the flesh, leaving it raw. Not that freeing himself would help. A chain on his left front leg means he can move neither forwards, backwards nor sideways. The elephant’s owner has tethered the youngster because he prefers to tend to his small shop in the grounds of the Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia.
Money comes first. And so, day after day, week after week, the elephant stands there, being released from his chains only at the end of each day.
Anyone finding the scene depressing, and who turns away to look for more happy animals in the zoo would eventually leave, as I did, utterly depressed. Surabaya Zoo has been branded the worst in the world and when I walked through this animal torture ground I was left in no doubt its reputation was well earned.
In another cage, a sad rhinocerous hornbill looks up at the blue sky, trying to take off from its perch, but there is no room to flap its wings. Well over 50 animals have died here in the past three months, says Tony Sumampau, a former member of the zoo’s temporary management team, who had finally left in despair. ‘The keepers have stalls that they run selling food and drinks and it’s more important for them to make money than it is to be taking care of their animals.’
The state of the zoo’s animals came to world-wide attention following the death of a giraffe in 2012 that was found with no less than 20 kilograms of plastic bags in its stomach from people throwing candy bars at it.
The zoo, was opened in 1916 during Dutch colonial rule, and next to nothing has been done to improve it. Instead, more and more animals have been packed in. A report by an independent team set up by Indonesia’s forestry ministry called for the animals be moved to other zoos but nothing has been done. Other zoos refuse to take the animals because of their condition and the fear that many of them carrying diseases.
Sitting alone is another orangutan. I cannot believe what I see – she is chewing on the yellow top of a marker pen someone has thrown at her. She pushes it forward between her lips, then sucks it back into her mouth. I fear she will soon swallow it. Beside her, rats scurry in and out of holes in an embankment.
InfiniteFrogs For those of you who haven’t heard of this place, it first shot to internet infamy a few years ago, when the Jakarta Post coined the phrase “Zoo of Death” in an article about a deceased giraffe, which was found to have a 40 pound ball of plastic in its stomach. The story was shocking and the name stuck – particularly as Surabaya Zoo kept up the work of killing the wild animals it was meant to protect. Approximately 25 animals per month died or went missing at the zoo.
But the abuse goes back further than this. The East Java Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) had previously conducted an investigation in August 2010, which found that negligent keepers, corruption, and filthy conditions were to blame for most of the animal deaths. It is alleged that zookeepers were stealing meat which they sold to the black market. Animals were also allegedly being stolen by the zookeepers and sold – dead or alive.
The zoo shot to stratospheric, “Ted-Bundy-like” infamy in 2012/13, when the story of Melani emerged. Melani, a 15 year old critically endangered Sumatran tiger, had been fed chemically tainted meat for several years, destroying her digestive system and causing her weight to drop to 44 kilograms — half the weight of a healthy tiger. Melani became the poster animal for the cause – the powerfully haunting images of her condition, amidst the backdrop of the disgusting cell in which she was kept, caused an internet storm of protest.
http://youtu.be/QKrRsN7iMsA
Throughout 2012 and 2013, internet campaigners and animal welfare group Cee4Life raised awareness of Melani’s plight in an effort to shame the Indonesian authorities into taking action. Global petitions containing 184,488 signatures were presented to Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan in in his Jakarta office in July 2013.
While at the meeting, the Minister appeared unmoved by the petitions, and the zoo administrators (who were surprise attendees at the meeting) even disputed the evidence presented. They claimed that the photos were fake, and that the animals were treated very well at Surabaya Zoo.
For example on July 13th 2013 under the cover of darkness, zoo staff attempted to clandestinely move four endangered hippos. Two dozen staff surrounded the hippos, and they were beaten with bamboo poles in an attempt to move them, causing facial and neck injuries.
Melani was rescued in June/July 2013, and is now receiving professional care. Dozens of other animals have also been rescued in the second half of 2013, although the Mayor of Surabaya has referred to them as stolen, and alleges that the administrators traded the animals for vehicles and other items.
The barbarity of the hanged lion images may finally have forced the authorities to act. On January 22nd, the Jakarta Globe reported that a high level meeting has resulted in the administrators of the zoo being sacked. “This definitive license (to administer the zoo) will be given to the mayor this week,” Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said following a meeting with Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Whether this leads to the improvement of the zoo is not certain. Mayor Rismaharini is deemed as popular with the citizens of Surabaya, who consider her to not be corrupt. However the mayor and her team have limited experience in the care of wild animals, and has often refused access to professionals wanting to better the care of the animals at Surabaya Zoo.
Cee4Life has published an open letter to the mayor begging her to allow professionals access to the animals, to which the mayor has not yet responded. It is also alleged she is refusing to update the outdated and cruel Victorian era enclosures, as she believes it would destroy the atmosphere of the zoo.
Only time will tell if the world’s worst zoo will be closed, or dragged into the modern world. One thing is for sure, the internet community is greatly helping the cause. You can add your voice by signing this author’s petition and the Cee4Life petition.
Why should anyone think these savages, who care nothing for human beings, would have any regard for the animal kingdom? Most Muslim nations do not even allow for people to own dogs as pets. I guess they are afraid they will be infected with human emotions by being around these loving animals.
This broke my heart. Both for the heartbroken circus animals who will lose their beloved circus trainers, and the heartbroken circus workers who love their animals very much, and without jobs may become homeless.
http://www.bedlamfarm.com/2017/01/17/how-lies-and-ignorance-killed-the-circus-ruins-lives-endangers-elephants/
How Lies Killed The Circus, Ruined Lives, Endangered Elephants
…………..For years, PETA and other animal rights groups have been flooding the Internet with these videos, just as they flooded the Web with photos of abused carriage horses when they went after the New York Carriage Trade.
These claims of abuse, rarely, if ever, substantiated, set the template for the growing movement to free the elephants from the circus, even as no one had or has any idea of where most of them will go.
Since the videos suggested that circus elephants were being abused, Ringling Brothers had no real way to defend itself against the inference that they must also still be abusing their elephants, assuming they once were.
How do you disprove a lie? And when did the struggle for animal welfare become a campaign to destroy the lives of people who care for them and keep them alive?
The animal rights campaign against Ringling Brothers is a travesty, and ought to be a crime. It was built on a pillar of lies and will leave great suffering in its wake.
It will do nothing to help the vanishing domesticated animals of the world and much to harm, even kill, them.
A fund-raising analyst on Wall Street told me this morning on the phone that the elephant and other animal abuse videos are the biggest money-raisers on the Internet, they are a gold mine for animal rights organizations seeking funds.They raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year, he said.
If only truth were as easily transmitted as emotion. He told me these online videos are responsible for “close to half” of PETA’s annual revenue.
As it happened in my research, none of those horse videos were from the horses of New York Carriage Trade, and several were found to be photos and videos of horses that had dropped dead of old age or natural causes in faraway places, several overseas. A couple were the accidents that happen to horses sometimes, as they do to people.
None of the abused elephant videos being shared all over Facebook were of Ringling Bros. elephants. Does that actually matter? It seems not….
Ringling Brothers has never been convicted of animal cruelty or abuse by any court, judicial entity or jury. The circus won every single one of the many and expensive lawsuits filed against it….
so we should disregard the wellbeing of an animal because the people will lose their jobs? your wrong love. no one should have the right to put into slavery any living being. which is any animal. to me. time for a caeer change.
Bloody unbelievable that human beings could do this…
But then moslems have a well developed mania for pain, agony and death, and as we all should know by now, they are not real members of the human race, but grossly inferior sub-humans.
Peter, you are assuming they are human beings.
What upsets me about this , besides the obvious abuse by zoo personnel , is that there are people who frequent this establishment. What type of person pays to witness the cruelty, abuse and the starving of our Creator’s Kingdom Inhabitants? What sick minds munch down on snacks while perusing around watching animals starve to death? Sick, sadistic, satanic souls. All of them. Zookeeper and patrons alike.
Put a bullet in all brains. For the animals it would be a humanitarian gesture to relieve suffering. For the so-called humans, a gesture to prevent future suffering of those entrusted to our care.
Fuck the evil bastards that are responsible for this.
Fuck them and everything that belongs to them.
Fuck their detestable religion/ideology
Fuck allah and all who call upon his name
PETA drove Ringling Brothers Circus into bankruptcy. They should be ashamed of themselves for that.
I have heard about this terrible zoo for a few years now and not one word from peta. I hope they are proud of that.
Wherever there are Muslims, non-Muslims and animals can NEVER be safe. For 1,400 years, Muslim monsters have caused great anguish and suffering to humans and animals.
It breaks the human heart to see emaciated bears with outstretched arms, begging for food. To see the tormented eyes of animals filled with despair.
I’m shouting out to God. My heart is crying.
Judgement Day: The day of God’s Great Wrath.
Bible, Romans 12:19 VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.
Lol! This type of abuses is an Asian thing. Happens mostly in South East Asia and China. Filthy and scummy India too!
Never saw this one coming, Bonni.
Heartwrenching and appalling don’t
quite cover it.I thumbed through the
pictures and didn’t really see the clip.
That was more than enough. These
beautiful creatures had the supreme
misfortune of coming in contact with
satan’s disciples.All of them, liars.
Spokeswoman veronika lanu, liar!
Loveless breed of subhumans has
never ceased to amaze me.These
animals are free to run with God now,
for eternity.As for the lowlifes,there
is no place to hide when your judgement
day comes.The True Creator watches
over his flocks, and you will wish you
had never been born.To hell with you.
DB, there are a lot of these stories. I only post them occasionally because they are very upsetting, but necessary to see, As Ghandi said, the way a society treats its animals is a reflection of that society’s character.(or something like that)
The Severely Abused Animals Cry Out to God, their Maker.
The Tortured animals’ Desperate Pleas and Cries of Agony are heard by God in Heaven. The wicked deeds of their Muslim owners are Recorded in Heavenly Books that will be opened on Judgement Day.
Muslims Refuse to Show Mercy to intensely Hated non-Muslim Humans and animals who were Created with Infinite LOVE and CARE by our Precious and Wonderful Creator.
In the Garden of Eden, animals were the Beloved Companions of Adam and Eve.
Humans and Animals were all Happy and Safe in the Garden of Eden — There were NO Rapes, NO Gang Rapes, NO Tortures, NO Beheadings, NO Satanic Ritual Abuse, NO Sexual Enslavement of Women and Children, NO Savage Slaughters of Innocents.
The Garden of Eden was the way God wanted life to be on this earth. God-haters OPPOSE it.
This truly is appalling cruelty to animals and symptomatic I suggest, of the real nature of the prevalent culture of Islam.
All countries of the world must be brought to understand this – and the enormous threat posed not only to animals but to all life including humanity. Any culture under whose rules and laws this can happen simply cannot be tolerated any longer.
With such understanding will come the clear necessity to implement laws which ensure that Islam is not recognised as an official religion with all the many benefits and privileges that affords.
This I suggest is one way – the peaceful way – to remove the culture from the West – the other way is not peaceful but, in the last resort, also acceptable.
Common behavior for Obamas fellow muslims
There’s a solution to this. It’s not PETA.
mean while another fake hate crime exposed
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/19/fake-news-14-year-old-muslim-girl-vienna-faked-attack-story/
“I vigorously defend my right …. to send an old horse to the glue factory (dog food) …. and my right to put down a hopelessly sick animal (with compassion) behind the barn (The Yearling by Marjorie Kinan Rawlings) …. but, this cruelty to these beautiful animals …. is something very different ?” Husbandry is being a responsible, loving HUSBAND
They have also Sex with Orangutans-a police must storm the village with AK47 the rescue the Sexslave
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shocking-story-sex-slave-orangutan-and-her-rescue/
I can watch all executions of those idiots – cuz people are the worst soo i dont rally give a flying f*** bout humans, but when I see something that muslems do to animals I scroll down dont even watch, when I post this comment. mainly I hate them for what they do to dogs and cats. no mercy – they want mercy go for Jesus Christ, i would’nt even blink and shred a tear if I had to shot muslems of all age.
Depressing! Proud animals that belong in the wild, which ought to be treated with immense respect for their sacrificing their freedom for the education of us humans, being treated essentially like Muslim Right Hand Possessions! What can we do about it, how can we educate a people who simply have been indoctrinated since birth in a vile cult? Perhaps the most charitable thing would be for a good Samaritan to mix something in the food so these poor animals make a quick exit from their miserable situation! Where are the Liberals, and liberal organizations like PETA, when shit like this happens?
This really shows the reality of muslim nature.
Yes, it does, Raj. I have an entire Category here about Muslim animal abuse.
sad to see the poor tigress and her condition, and she is given a Hindu name. meanwhile we in our country India have 3898 tigers, the worlds largest population.
Sidd, tigers are becoming extinct everywhere else in the world.
Tigers, Sharks, I hope they all dissappear…, so they don’t have to suffer anymore. It is enraging to see them like this.., walking skeletons. For what purpose do they even have a zoo? Chinese use them for impotence. Narrow intellectual minds that imitate western practice, but lack in everything. It is cruel to see, brings tears to my eyes, just like the video of a donkey set on fire in Pakistan or puppies dragged through glue in Turkey.
ZOO? THIS IS A ZOO?
More like an IslamoNazi death camp for animals.
http://www.apollospeaks.com
OMG. I have never seen such unhealthy specimens of animals in all my life! This is what passes for a zoo, in Indonesia, is it? Looks more like a death camp! I’ve seen other images of zoos in other parts of the Islamic world, such as Egypt and the Palestinian territory, and they are all pathetic, at least the ones I have seen. If you want to see the fierce and strong Sumatran Tiger starving to death, this is the place to go. If you want to see dying elephants, you can see it here.
Funny how these people in this part of the world always think they are the best and are on top of things. These people have a lot to be ashamed of!
I’ve been to some zoos here in the US and I can tell you, that in American zoos and their counterparts in Europe, the animals receive better veterinary care than many people receive medical care. The animals receive fine meals and no longer live in cages, but in environments designed to look like their natural habitats.
Talk about the other side of the coin, sheesh!
Muzz hate pigs and dogs. They rape livestock and set donkeys on fire and beat horses to death. They machine gun down oryx herds while on “safari” in outfitted jeeps. They are skyrocketing in their numbers when it comes to consuming illegally poached wildlife for rugs, trinkets, souvenirs and apothecary medicines (their gaining on China big time).
Muzz insurgents have attacked wildlife in parks and nature preserves to harm tourism industries. They accuse any creature from birds to sea turtles to being “Zionist spies.” They make videos of them torturing cats and puppies. They rip the heads off chickens at weddings.
Muzz on borders with Israel will shoot into Israeli territory to kill are gazelles, wild asses and other endangered creatures. The Iraqis thought nothing of killing thousands of creatures during their wars. And let no forget beastiality…. muzz are depraved slime that enjoy raping animals.
And as for zoos. If there are any muzz zoos that are half way decent it is because they get technical support, funds, new exhibits and animals from Western and First World Asian zoos.
This zoo of horrors just shows once again why and how muzz are the most destructive force on the planet.
I spent a lot of in Indonesia back in the “90’s”, There’s a Wild Animal park near Jakarta that seemed to take good care of the animals. On the other hand, in Downtown Jakarta ( can’t remember the exact location) in flee market setting I saw a man sitting with 3 tiger heads selling off small cutting of the fur. I was beyond furious, I told him (in Bahasa Indonesia) I was cut off his head an sell pieces of it. My friends (Indonesians) pulled me away afraid I was going to start a riot or something.
I imagine this so-called zoo will probably be selling off parts of the beautiful exotic animals they more-than-likely purposely neglect till they die.
Yeah, the muslim filth HATE all animals. Actually they HATE all beings whether human or animal that are not muslim.
You can tell a Civility of a people by their treatment of animals.
Poor creature. May she rest in Peace.
Fuc… hate Indonesia fuc…g muzscum filth.This is why the anzacs shot their own horses when they left islamic countries and couldn’t take them home.
Beyond horrible. But how can we expect people who don’t even value human life to value animal life?
Look at all the suffering these muslim savages cause.
I hate these Muslim savages, bastards!
Holy God almighty. I’ve seen these animals in my dreams for the past few weeks! Now I know why I kept seeing them! I’m not kidding you! I kept asking myself and God why I kept seeing these animals. It all just came out of the blue! EVERY ONE of these species have come up in my dreams. I’m almost speechless right now.
Nikki, people have been trying to close down this horrific zoo for a few years now but apparently it’s still open.
Nikki – ME TOO. I saw a tiger, & the elephant. God its good to see somebody else gets these dreams. Unfortunately not so for these poor animals. But it least it is a small sign of hope. I can’t look at this article at all. I couldn’t understand this dreaming either – its ‘cos we’re not evil, that we don’t so readily comprehend it. Thank God Ms Bonni published this. Its taken me decades to understand enough to switch on about what I’m being shown. We all share DNA so its not so ‘freaky’ after all we share 40% of our DNA w/ a banana.
So terrible. This is the hell on earth, that merciless Moslems are so hellbent on creating for all of us.
Muslims should be thrown to the lions!
They are the animals!
Notice how everything the muslims get their hands on or gain control of always seems to turn to shit…,…
No “seems” about it.
Ghandi said ” a nation can be judged by how it treats it’s animals”.
I agree.
I also judge a nation by how the female population are treated.
A country is judged on how it deports muslims. Deport them all then a country can grow!
It’s not exactly about “nation”. It’s exactly about Islam.
Horrible. Very hard looking at these animals. Where are the activists? If so-called liberals knew what such a disease islam was they could cure two issues very dear to their heart much faster – animal rights and climate change.
Liberals know and choose Islam over everything.
I’m sickened by these human species doing these horrible things to these lovely Gods creatures! All animals are here for we humans to take care of not to destroy them! I pray to God I never have to KILL ANYONE who does these horrific things to Gods angels on earth! But I will KILL anyone who destroys our animals death is too good for them
Where are all the animal rights activists!
Harassing H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for keeping racing pigeons.
Wetting their pants over Islam.
Feed the Muslim scum to the Tigers. I would be happy to be the one to do it..
The future of every living thing on this planet, if the death cult of islam wins.
There are fates worse than death and for me, islam is exactly that!
imagine a world without this insane “religion”. islam is a mental illness.
Truly hurts my heart and soul to see these animals abused like this. Hate my own species more each day over this insane crap!
Excuse me? What do politics have to do with this? This was the most useless, hateful, and self-serving comment I’ve ever read on such a tragic topic. It shows how unintelligent and uninformed you are, and it,s further evidence of the blatant narcissism our species is so capable of. It’s unfortunate you let yourself be controlled by the media so entirely that you completely lose focus on the issue. This has NOTHING to do with American politics. I feel sorry for you.
These vermin need to be exterminated without mercy. If these vermin believe in any God, how could they justify the torture and abuse of these poor animals! The next person that tells me Islam is a religion of mercy I will happily spit in their face.
They believe in “Allah” or a projection of their own pathology.
They forget that heaven is the biggest and the most final judge , the death of all these innocent animals hangs on all their heads , all we can honestly do at this point is kneel down and pray , not for them ,but for the animals that have passed and those that remain…. 🙁