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Make Belgrade Zoo animal friendly

Target: Nenad Bogdanoviæ, Mayor of Belgrade
Sponsor: Paul Carroll, Concerned citizens
  • Signatures: 5,334
  • Goal: 5,000
  • Deadline: 7-8-2007
Belgrade Zoo houses over 2000 animals in small cramped concrete cages. Many of these animals show signs of 'stereotypic behavior' which is common in animals that exist in cages without anything to stimulate the animals mind. Grass for visitors, concrete for animals.

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Number Date Name Country Why I'm signing this petition
5,350 7:47 am PST, Nov 28 Cid Martins Portugal  
5,349 3:00 am PST, Nov 27 kathleen mercier France  
5,348 1:31 am PST, Nov 27 NICOLA MCLEAN United Kingdom because i'm sickened by mans inhumanity towards animals and angry that the world still holds dear a god who has failed dailly to live up to his own press and his failure to protect these animals and i'm angry that we are so arrogant to presume our evils will not revisit us in another live.
5,347 8:30 am PST, Nov 20 fugere pauline France  
5,346 6:45 am PST, Nov 18 laetitia dubost France  
5,345 7:40 am PST, Nov 17 Mariska Catsman-Okkersen Netherlands  
5,344 5:26 am PST, Nov 16 Stassijns Ludo Belgium  
5,343 8:16 am PST, Nov 15 Carmen Sander Germany Stop the Cruel !!!
5,342 2:10 am PST, Nov 7 Anonymous United Kingdom because animals feel pain and have feelings just like humans. people seem to forget that humans are animals too, we just have more power because we are smart. animals are the sweetest things on this earth, and i say let the zoo keepers feel pain and let them live in the same conditions as those poor defenceless animals have to suffer with.
5,341 4:47 pm PDT, Oct 29 micia frelat France i'm signing this petition, because animauls need a good environnement, and this zoo, is not a good environnement ! every animauls are important, and the need respect ! so, good luck for this petition !
5,340 12:30 pm PDT, Oct 22 Manuela Kueppers Germany  
5,339 1:40 am PDT, Oct 22 petit pierre France  
5,338 1:22 pm PDT, Oct 21 Edmond Ciesielski France  
5,337 10:40 am PDT, Oct 21 louisiana dauphin France  
5,336 5:18 am PDT, Oct 21 dechaud jmichel France  
5,335 5:17 am PDT, Oct 21 dechaud blandine France  
5,334 12:50 pm PDT, Oct 20 Hélène Szzépaniak France  
5,333 12:49 pm PDT, Oct 20 Véronique Ciesielski France  
5,332 12:41 pm PDT, Oct 20 sophie colin France  
5,331 12:30 pm PDT, Oct 17 Anonymous United States Animals should have BIG cages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5,330 12:06 pm PDT, Oct 17 VEDA Bolivia Bolivia  
5,329 5:57 pm PDT, Oct 16 Angelika Heuer Germany  
5,328 6:21 am PDT, Oct 12 Anonymous France quel plaisir peut on avoir a venir voir des animaux souffrir détenus dans de si mauvaises conditions?Belgrade ne doit pas accueillir ces animaux ou leur habitat de vie ne peut être respectés ,les "zoos"de l'union europeenne ne peuvent ils pas se mobiliser s'ils ont la capacité d'acceuillir ces martyrs dans de bonnes conditions,avec une telle vêtusté ,(tout est à raser)il me semble difficile de reconstruire un parc de semi liberté ou l'on voit les animaux vivre leur captivité dans un environnement proche de leur milieu naturel,sauf gros budget de l'UE,notre pétition aidera t'elle?je l'espères et ne pas lacher l'affaire
5,327 1:49 am PDT, Oct 12 michelle müller Germany  
5,326 10:08 am PDT, Oct 11 Anonymous France comment peut ont regarder ces animaux souffrir sans méme agir pff
5,325 12:43 pm PDT, Oct 8 Brigitta Straub Switzerland  
5,324 6:56 am PDT, Oct 6 Karl Brunner Germany because i like the animals
5,323 5:28 am PDT, Oct 6 frank rybicki Germany  
5,322 1:42 am PDT, Oct 6 Klaudia Hümer Austria  
5,321 8:46 am PDT, Oct 5 Anonymous France Quel honte de laisser enfermer des animaux dans des conditions pareilles !
5,320 7:30 am PDT, Oct 3 Hema Bedasie Trinidad And Tobago Humans are animals too and just as we feel pain, non-human animals feel pain as well. The only difference is that they do not have voices to speak out when injustices are committed against them. We must be their voices.
5,319 5:43 am PDT, Oct 2 Anonymous France Les animaux méritent le respect comme n'importe qui!!!!
5,318 4:26 am PDT, Sep 30 Maria Nika Greece  
5,317 9:10 am PDT, Sep 27 Laëtitia Marzo France  
5,316 2:46 pm PDT, Sep 26 canel Beatrice France  
5,315 12:48 pm PDT, Sep 24 Sofia Lopes Portugal  
5,314 10:16 am PDT, Sep 24 Jean-François Dutto France  
5,313 6:00 am PDT, Sep 24 Maria van Dingenen United States  
5,312 5:40 am PDT, Sep 24 Marie Dutto France  
5,311 5:50 pm PDT, Sep 21 goumy barbara France Tant que le monde est cruel envers les animaux, c'est que nous sommes toujours à l'état primitif. La Communauté Européenne ne peut-elle donc rien?!
5,310 5:29 pm PDT, Sep 21 Virginia Korn Germany  
5,309 1:58 pm PDT, Sep 21 andreas karth roald Norway I was shocked seeing the Belgrade zoo from the restaurant above and it was clearly that the animals wasn't treated right.
5,308 8:33 am PDT, Sep 17 Michel Maes Belgium Il ne faut pas laisser se faire de telles attrocités!
5,307 3:33 am PDT, Sep 14 pauline watkins United Kingdom iam signing this i feel the people who are treating the animals so badly SHOULD BE TREATED the same . FREE THE THE ANIMALS TO BETTER PLACES ..
5,306 9:36 pm PDT, Sep 12 Francine Thomson Australia I demand for authorities to make Belgrade Zoo animal friendly. Please watch Christian the lion on You Tube, you may gain more insight into animals. They should not be treated as secondary, life is life!Respect it and respect yourself in doing so.
5,305 1:12 pm PDT, Sep 9 Nikolina Krampus Obad Croatia Uvijek mi je muka gledati životinje u zatočeništvu, mrzim zoološke vrtove, mrzila sam ih i kao dijete, gledanje životinja u kavezima ne bi nikome trebalo pričinjavati zadovoljstvo. Kada ih je već sudbina / čovjek osudila na takav život, nadam se da će im se priuštiti bar podnošljivi životni uvjeti, što na slikama ne vidim.
5,304 8:11 am PDT, Sep 8 Anonymous France Parce-que je veux que ceux zoo s'agrandissent car etre sur du béton n'est pas confortable,qu'ils ont de la végétation et qu'ils ont une plus grande cage.
5,303 9:22 am PDT, Sep 5 Tina Alaca Turkey because what Serbia is doing to the animals in general is unacceptable.
5,302 8:48 am PDT, Sep 5 lucy rooijen Netherlands  
5,301 8:46 am PDT, Sep 5 Laura van Klink Netherlands  

Make Belgrade Zoo animal friendly

Dear Mr Mayor and other Elected Officials

We are horrified and appalled at the images and stories concerning Belgrade Zoo that are appearing on the Internet. We urge the Mayor of Belgrade to instruct the zoo director, Mr Vukosav Bojovic, to seek help from the International Animal Conservation community in making Belgrade Zoo a more animal friendly place. These animals originally came from forests, jungles, open plains, grasslands, the artic, none of which have concrete floors, yet in the zoo they are forced to live in small, cramped concrete floored cages. This has led to the animals showing all the classic signs of 'stereotypic behavior', abnormal behavior that has resulted from years of deprivation (pacing, head-bobbing, neck-twisting, bar-biting ,bar sucking, Coprophagia, over-grooming, Self-mutilation etc…). The image of Belgrade this zoo portrays will damage the tourism industry and puts across a message that Serbians don't care for their animals.

In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy. Lets not destroy these exotic animals through neglect.

The Undersigned,

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