AR-News: (US) Ask Six Flags to Place Its Surplus Animals in Sanctuaries

[Jill Kiesow]

>Ask Six Flags to Place Its Surplus Animals in Sanctuaries
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>Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, a marine theme park in Cleveland, OH, has 
>been sold. Cedar Point, the buyer, is an amusement park that does not host 
>exotic animal shows, so the animals currently held at Six Flags Worlds of 
>Adventure, including tigers, dolphins, reptiles, zebras, and a killer 
>whale, must go.
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>Plans have already been made to send Shouka, the park's young female 
>killer whale, to Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, CA, where she will 
>continue to languish in a barren tank deprived of a family group and 
>natural ocean environment. Shouka's mother was captured in the wild in 
>1990 by a French aquarium and Shouka was born in captivity in 1993 and 
>imported from France in 2001 to Six Flags Worlds of Adventure. Had she 
>been born in the wild she would have lived with her mother and extended 
>family for her entire life.
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>Sadly, Shouka's fate is sealed. However, it is not too late for the other 
>exotic animals that currently reside at Six Flags World of Adventure to 
>find a better home. The fate of the park's tigers, zebras, reptiles, and 
>other animals remains uncertain. Oftentimes when exotic animal attractions 
>close down, animals are merely auctioned off to the highest bidder, and 
>may end up as exotic "pets," in a circus, in a roadside zoo, or at the 
>receiving end of a gun at an exotic game ranch.
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>Six Flags recently announced that it has agreed to sell six park 
>properties in Europe to a private investment firm for $200 million. Surely 
>it can afford to provide proper placement for its surplus animals.
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>Please send polite letters to Six Flags' Chairman and Chief Executive 
>Officer Kieran Burke asking him to "do the right thing" and send the 
>Cleveland park's remaining animals to animal sanctuaries where they can 
>live out the rest of their lives free from performing and being on public 
>display.
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>Send letters to:
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>Kieran Burke, CEO
>Premier Parks, Inc.
>11501 Northeast Expressway
>Oklahoma City, OK 73131
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>For more information contact Monica Engebretson at 916-447-3085 x210 or at 
>monica at api4animals.org
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>Posted 03/15/04 - Okay to Forward/Crosspost


Posted by:
Animal Protection Institute
PO Box 22505
Sacramento, CA 95822
916-447-3085
www.api4animals.org



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