AR-News: (TW) Activists slam zoos, urge legislation

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Better laws regulating zoos are urgently needed because the habits and
behavior of zoo animals reflect the decades of neglect they have been
subjected to as the result of human-centered thinking, animal rights
activists said yesterday.

Members of the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan (EAST) screened
a documentary at the Legislative Yuan yesterday to prove that some zoo
animals suffer from neglect and abuse.

Volunteers of the society spent two years shooting the documentary in
zoos around the nation. In the film, a mangy Alaskan Brown Bear confined
to a small room in the Kaohsiung Municipal Shou Shan Zoo has lost most
of its fur. 

full story:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/06/16/2003175239

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