Not only humans suffering from the pandemic, but the animals incarcerated in its zoos as well.
Citing the lack of visitors, some Thai zoos are selling their animals for money while others ask for donations to feed them.
Southeast of the capital, the Sriracha Tiger Zoo has announced that it wants to sell a herd of 11 elephants – female calves and adults – raising thorny questions under wildlife protection laws.
“It’s necessary for us to sell them even though we love them so much,” the zoo wrote on social media.
Given that elephants are protected animals under the Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act, they cannot be sold to anyone who do not own an elephant breeding permit.
Meanwhile, several zoos nationwide have announced that they are open to donations to feed the animals and provide for their “welfare.”
Auttaporn Srihaeran, director of the…
