Signature campaign to free the sad gorilla: 50,000 signatures reached

Environmentalists are calling liberation between gorilla positioned in Riù zoo by Safaris Fasano. And petition It reached 50,000 signatures to launch it.

Riù is a gorilla captured as a cub in Africa, taken from its land and its mom. He has lived on the Safari zoo in Fasano since 1994 and has been within the limelight of animal rights activists for years who wish to free him. “Proper now he’s alone – the petition states Meta Parma affiliation – as a result of his unlucky pal Pedro left him to die on 13 December 2008 after a brief sickness. Now, in spite of everything these years, he’s outdated, resigned, and sad sufficient to be referred to as a tragic, unhappy gorilla.”

Petition

The Meta Parma affiliation launched a marketing campaign for it to be revealed on Change.org, and inside just a few hours it had surpassed 50,000 signatures. «Riù – reads the textual content of the petition – together with his sad gaze and his extraordinarily dignified clever expression regardless of his unhappiness, he sends a loud and clear message that reaches those that can perceive it: the actual downside is freedom denied. Riù is a primate, a person pressured to dwell inside a glass bell. Will we at all times imagine that it may be outlined as residing locked up in a zoo? Riù has been in jail for thus a few years, he’s outdated, at the very least he has the proper to dwell his final years, months or days exterior that zoo, we owe it to him».

needs

The petition asks Zoosafari administration to take him to a spot the place he isn’t on the mercy of the viewers. «Riù – based on animal rights activists – was caught in Africa as a child, taken from their land. They caught him when he was very younger and took him to Italy to promote to the Medrano circus, which purchased one other younger gorilla, Pedro, with him. It was December 2, 1975 and the 2 child gorillas had been purchased for 850 thousand kilos, Riù and Pedro by no means noticed their freedom once more and shared the identical unhappy destiny, remaining locked in a circus till 1994 after which in Fasano Zoo Safari. . in Puglia”.

Particulars from the zoo

However the explanations come from Zoosafari. “The habitat has been renovated and doubled, now over 600 sq. meters -” explains the Fasanese wildlife park supervisor. Fabio Rausa -: timber are at all times accessible, together with trunks and picket “castles” to climb on, a waterfall with operating water to swim, a inexperienced garden planted with particular essences. The forest, the place there are not any partitions that enable Riù to remain in shut contact with the general public, however the perimeter home windows of Riù (however solely the place he can isolate himself and when he needs, has an infinite variety of areas the place he can shut himself if he needs), is the addition of two massive interconnected garages. Consequently, inside areas, which may now be described as actual residences reserved just for themselves, invisible to the general public however outfitted with massive home windows that open to the skin world, are fairly totally different from what they’re in spite of everything. painted”.