Coronavirus: Zoo may feed animals to animals as funds dry up in pandemic

So says a zoo in northern Germany, which drew up a startling contingency plan if the financial strain caused by the government-ordered shutdown because of the coronavirus outbreak did not ease up soon: Slaughter some zoo animals and feed them to others.

No information was available on which animals would be slaughtered first and which would be saved under the plan.But the zoo, which has about 700 animals over 24 hectares, confirmed her comments on Wednesday . But Tierpark Neumunster's peacetime proposal is unheard-of, said Jan Bauer, who runs a zoo similar in size, the Tierpark Dessau, 280km south-east of Neumunster.

The Neumunster zoo's plan was revealed as Germany's strategy for stemming the outbreak has drawn global attention. German state governments have been lauded for quickly delivering financial aid to small and medium businesses to weather the shutdown. But the zoo appears to have been struggling to access the rescue funds.

On Wednesday, the German government was expected to announce plans for a partial reopening of public life. When and under what conditions the nation's zoos and animal parks would be allowed to open their doors remained unclear. Last week, a district mayor called for the Tierpark Berlin, one of two major zoos in the German capital, to reopen for a limited number of visitors.

Omg!

:( somebody help!

Your caption is very misleading. Cant you just put German Zoo?

Because they were feeding them humans before? What lazily written headline

Hmm

Just asking, can't they donate animal away to zoo in other countries?

Why not feed idiots to these animals who don’t abide to social distance?

wakaaa90 😭

That is the news makes me feel the real impact of Covid 19.

Oh no!😰 Please do not go till that extend! There are other ways, raise funds. millionaires, billionaires animal lovers. It’s time for you to contribute and reach out. Please help.. Try vegan for the animals. Let the earth heal. 🙏🙏🙏

I hate privately funded zoos and would like all of them to close down. Stop caging animals ffs

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