Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve staff going without pay so lions don't go hungry

It's drawing tonight, so keep your fingers crossed.

 

Best of luck mate! finally in the US which explains my lack of knowledge on the lotto

 

They are very touchy on their facebook site.

I replied

And now it is gone they have deleted it, and I am banned.

 

I like the "they will all be in international breeding programs" part.... Most of the animals are to old to breed and the others have little to no value in any program as their history is lost/unknown. Yeah I requested info on what animals would be sent where and was swiftly deleted and banned... Clearly something she is keeping from the public.

 

Anyone heard any updates?

 

was about to ask the same thing.

 

I have just noticed they have their Peafowl advertised for sale on Gumtree.com.au saying they have closed their business and they cant leave them there - has anyone got any updates as to whether they have actually closed their doors and where the other animals have gone? I found 1 half of the property listed as sold on real estate. I understood some of their animal such as the cheetah and the tiger were actually owned by other zoos, so do they get them back or what?

 

For those of you who are curious about the classified regarding the sales of the Peafowl , i have posted the link to this thread . It had taken time to find it , but i utilized my skills and eventually found it . If the ad is unavailable or has expired , i have also attached a screen shot of the entire web page . It's a shame that the zoo has now closed.


Peacocks for sale. All sexes, sizes and ages | Birds | Gumtree Australia Cairns City - Brinsmead.

 

A sad thing to see... I wonder how different it would have been if a competent person had purchased the zoo in 2012 and listened to proper advice instead of thinking they knew best. RIP CWSR

 

So does anyone know which animals are being transferred to other Australian zoos? And if so which zoos? Is it the few quoted at the end of the article in post #128?

 

Such a shame to lose both species of hippos.

 

I am suprised that the Pygmies were allowed to go off shore, esp as Adelaide's last one died recently and the Cairns ones were such succesfull breeders.... Werribee still has the old hippo lakes (off display) that could have held all of them... Altina was talking of wanting hippos.... huge shame! I would have gladly taken them on if my back yard pool was big enough! sigh!... dreams are free

 

How could anyone disallow their going off-shore?

 

chain ourselves to the gates

 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...und-airborne-ark/story-fn59nm2j-1226647211314

 

I am saddened that this export of animals diminishes further the genetic and stocked diversity in Australia.

 

Clearly the main losses here are the hippos, both species, but I don't think any of the other animals are of particular use to the region really.

There are 38 animals going, according to the article, and 23 of them are lions, which I think there is very good population of anyway. The "Bengal" tigers and brown bears are phase out species (although I do feel especially sorry for the elderly bears, who are almost certainly going to a worse home than they had). The spider monkeys, ostrich, ring-tailed lemurs are common species, and I doubt these individuals were of any real use to the population. I don't know about the rhino, whether its genes were well-represented or not. And can't they, being an endangered, CITES I species, only be exported for recognised breeding programmes?

Overall, I'm not sure its quite the loss it appears to be, except most certainly for the hippos. It would have been great if ZAA or someone could have made a deal to keep them in the country.