We denounce the chaotic situation in which there are several animals of Prudencio Navarro zoo in Ayamonte (Huelva)

The Prudencio Navarro Zoo in Ayamonte (Huelva), closed to the public for two months by the municipal authorities who own their facilities and take care of the animals, still keep animals without knowing what to do with them, being in terrible conditions and refusing to speak with Animal Associations such as the Collective Against Animal Mistreatment (CACMA) that has offered on several occasions to help in the relocation of the animals that are still in the zoo.

This is a common practice of some institutions as in the case of Ayamonte City Council, to keep silent before the requests of citizens for the abandonment of zoo animals, contravening those established in article 105 / b of the Constitution and infringing the Law 19/2013 of Transparency of December 9 of the right to information.

Two bears, a tiger, four baboons, fallow deer and some other animals remain in the zoo in a lamentable state of abandonment and terrible hygienic sanitary conditions. For the Great Ape Project, this irresponsibility must be terminated immediately, before some of the animals die or there is a serious accident or flight due to lack of security.

Project Great Ape has denounced this situation before the Service of Nature Protection of the Civil Guard (SEPRONA), in two emails addressed to the Technical Office of the Commander of Huelva, for possible ill-treatment in the bad state of the animals and for violate Law 11/2003 of November 24 on Animal Protection of the Community of Andalusia and Law 31/2003 of October on the conservation of wildlife in zoos.

The zoos for the Great Ape Project must be reconverted and the cages that are left empty as they die should not be occupied by other same species coming from other zoos and end the breeding programs in captivity, except in those that are indigenous and are carried out for a reintroduction of the species into its habitat. It is not ethical or educational, to see captive living beings in which their true essence of life has been removed, keeping them in cages or small enclosures as if they were live pictures without future, boring and depressing.

In the same way that it happens with the City council of Ayamonte, happens with the Government of the Valencian Community and the zoo Bioparc, to which Great Ape Project has requested that the reasons of the death of two chimpanzee babies of a same mother be explained to them in a weekend, without so far have received a response, thus missing the referred article of the Constitution and Law 19/2003.

"The authorities are responsible for these situations that are occurring in many zoos and private centers, which are being closed or abandoned and where animals are left half abandoned, without fulfilling their duties to avoid their terrible conditions or seek immediate solutions and not that must always be the Animal Defense Associations that have to denounce and find a suitable place for the species that need it. For all of this, we ask the Town Council of Ayamonte to put an end to the calvary of the animals that still remain in the closed zoo before it is too late and to the SEPRONA to carry out an inspection to purge responsibilities ", said Pedro Pozas Terrados Executive Director and International President of the Great Ape Project in Spain.

For Pozas it is necessary that a Regulation of the Law 31/2003 of zoos be drafted, where it is punished with hardness so much the abuse, abandonment, the lack of emergency plans, the photographs with the animals and many other questions that make necessary a revision exhaustive of the text.

In the same way and once again, Great Ape Project requests the creation of a State Rescue Center for CITES species and exotic animals and in this way address the problems that arise when closing zoos or the location of animals of the circuses that are reconverted and stop using animals in their shows.

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Assigned by CACMA (Andalusian Collective Against Animal Abuse)

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