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Hello, leaders of Beijing Wildlife Park,

I went to Beijing Wildlife Park for the first time yesterday. After more than two hours of sightseeing, I am sure that this is my last visit to your park, and I will never come again. Besides, I will try my best to persuade people around me not to go to Beijing Wildlife Park. Next, I will explain the reasons in detail.

When I first entered the safari park, I was surprised by the beauty of the garden and the design atmosphere. As for animals, I think even compared with the best zoos in China, they should live happily, especially the golden monkey, which has a spacious activity space and a more realistic living environment in the wild, and the rich vegetation around it, which makes me very much recognize the slogan emphasized by Beijing Wildlife Park: protect animals, protect forests, and live in harmony with animals. Although this slogan is openly talked about in all zoos, you are different from those zoos, and you really did it. Until I saw the following things with my own eyes, my opinion changed completely:

1.

Animal performance entertainment area:

"Money is in charge" is probably the subtext behind all slogans, and Beijing Wildlife Park is no exception. There is an animal performance and entertainment area in the center of the zoo. It is said that a circus in Anhui was hired. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon when we visited. Strong sunlight shines directly into the empty performance venue, and the ground temperature is at least 45 degrees Celsius. On the bare ground without any shelter, about four or five tigers slept motionless in narrow iron cages (the nature of big cats is to lie down during the day and go out at night, which is their nap time), and two bears (Malay bears), even without the shelter of iron cages, were directly roasted by Japanese heads. Their hair is dry and dull and their bodies are quite thin. They were firmly tied around their necks by a finger-thick chain. Some animal behaviorists have made detailed investigations, and these repeated rigid behaviors reveal that animals are under great pressure and anxiety. The narrow space less than 3 square meters behind them is the "dormitory" of these animals on weekdays. There is no water and no shade, only bare cement floor and rusty iron railings; There is also a large cage of monkeys, about twenty or thirty, with serious hair loss. They are all crowded together. A breeder came to feed the food, but he just crushed something and threw it far away. Some fragments directly hit the animal's face, and some rolled out of the cage, out of the reach of the animal. The monkey who grabbed the food quickly climbed to the top of the cage to avoid being chased by his companions, while the young and weak were caught by the strong and fell to the ground. At that time, there were only countless monkeys screaming and screaming, and the cage was a mess.

There is no water where all animals live, so the poisonous sun will quickly dehydrate the creatures. Sure enough, I saw a tied black bear trying to reach for a small piece of cabbage leaves under the ground, but the chain tied it and made it move an inch more. It's just like that, trying to stretch its hind feet, only a few centimeters away from the cabbage leaves. I don't know how many people on the scene noticed the animal's difficult situation at that time. The keeper hurried past it but turned a blind eye.

It's time for the performance, the harsh music starts, and the breeder starts to beat the cage to wake up the tiger taking a nap. The tigers got up reluctantly, ready to show people the endless so-called "entertainment performances" that are staged every day. Tigers who don't want to try to avoid the "show" are rushed from one end of the cage to the other with iron bars, watching these helpless animals.

Later, we watched the bird exhibition, and the basic situation was similar. All of them are outsourced by the zoo to individual profit organizations. Those beautiful parrots are covered by wooden shelves, and the activity space of each animal is far less than the space it should have under normal circumstances (of course, it refers to the size of the captive space after considering animal welfare). Many animals are shedding their hair. They are all tied by chains. Some parrots accidentally fell off the wood when flapping their wings. Moreover, similarly, these animals can't drink water in time in hot weather, and the loud and harsh music behind them constantly stimulates the animals.

Compared with other animals with relatively superior life in Beijing Wildlife Park, these juggling animals are in sharp contrast, just like a discriminated third-class citizen in a developed country, and they are also very uncoordinated or even contrary to the overall image of Beijing Wildlife Park.

Striving for economic benefits is the ultimate goal of all businessmen, but as a wildlife park, a public welfare window showing how people get along with animals, it reminds us of some publicity and education functions. In addition to this goal, we should at least consider the bitter and happy feelings of animals. Isn't the word "love" that Beijing wildlife strives to embody? The word love, of course, refers to caring for nature and wild animals. The treatment animals get from humans, whether they live hard or happy, is the most intuitive and vivid example of education. But what is the message of these animal cruelty circuses hired by Beijing Wildlife Park to the audience? It teaches us that, first, humans can use animals for fun at will; Second, as long as we humans are happy, we can treat these silent creatures at will; Third, the pain and humiliation of animals have nothing to do with us. It costs money to come in anyway. And is this information "love" promoted by Beijing Wildlife Park? On the contrary, it is contempt, fun, play and humiliation.

2.

fodder

On the way back, I saw tourists picking up things on the ground and feeding them to animals from time to time. Strangely, there are very few managers who can see the walk in such a big zoo (in fact, we have never met any of them). Especially in the ostrich area, as long as they see someone coming, these animals will immediately go to the guardrail, habitually open their mouths, and even follow people. This shows how serious the feeding situation in Pingyue is, and there are countless cases of animal casualties caused by casual feeding in other zoos.

3.

The activity space in Nocturnal Animals is too small.

In Nocturnal Animals Pavilion, besides amphibians, I even saw a desert cat. Desert cats will come out in the morning, at dusk and at night. This is not a complete Nocturnal Animals (if desert cats are Nocturnal Animals, then this gloomy Nocturnal Animals Pavilion should also invite other big cats), because they are good at hiding, and they will live in the wild by using natural caves, but here, they only have a flat concrete floor. As for the outdoors, I have observed that their activity area is only a little more than one square meter. It is hard to imagine how an animal with such dexterity and a huge range of activities can live.

4.

drink water

This is a problem in many venues of Beijing Wildlife Park: without clean drinking water facilities, many animals can't replenish water in time when needed, which should be the first problem that zoo managers should consider in hot summer.

As the saying goes, as a zoo, if you don't think much about animals, it is obvious that it has no other purpose and no meaning except to enrich itself, and this result is often counterproductive. I hope that Beijing Wildlife Park can ban unnecessary animal circus performances, improve management in all aspects, and truly paint a beautiful picture of people and animals living in harmony. At least, the social significance of doing so will be far-reaching and extensive.