This petition is dedicated to our beloved giraffe Marius (R.I.P.), which went down,
so we can rise up and never allow to any zoo to kill a healthy giraffe ever again.
We love you Marius.
This heartbreaking picture have emerged of the moment a giraffe said goodbye to a terminally ill
zoo worker, who had spent most of his adult life cleaning the animal's enclosures.
Maintenance worker Mario has terminal cancer and had asked to be taken
into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo.
The 54-year-old was wheeled into the enclosure on his hospital bed.
Within minutes, the giraffes approached him and began to nuzzle and kiss him.
The Ambulance Wish Foundation, which transported Mario to the zoo, said Mario has little mobility
and finds speaking very difficult. "However, his face spoke volumes", they said.
"These animals recognised him, and felt that (things aren’t) going well with him,’
Kees Veldboer, the founder of the AWF told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
"(It was) a very special moment. You saw him beaming."
For all of you who didn't get it yet, this is how love and compassion looks like.
We all could be learning from this amazing giraffe and from all giraffes of the World for that matter.
GOD BLESS ALL GIRAFFES!!
