Orca Morgan, the oblivious martyr?

Published on zoos.media on the 12th of April in 2018. | By: Robin de Vries in cooperation with Sander Gielen

There is often something to read in the media about the orca lady Morgan living in Loro Parque. This article deals in detail with the question how the animal is doing.

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Posted on 30. March 201823. July 2022

animal welfare / conservation / education / media-echo / research

Why animals at the zoo do not live in captivity

Exclusive for zoos.media – 10.05.2017. Author: Philipp J. Kroiß

Are zoo animals essentially prisoners? This article deals with the question how true this term is of modern zoos at all and illuminates the background.

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Posted on 29. March 20185. June 2018

animal welfare / conservation / education / media-echo

Zoos and aquariums improve the lives of animals

Published in the Vancouver Sun on 22.12.2016. Author: Robin Ganzert

The expert describes how humanely and scientifically managed zoos contribute to making animals better.

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Posted on 29. March 201826. October 2019

zoo-facts

It is so easy to create wrong pictures of zoos

This video shows how you can take pictures in EVERY zoo, even in the best ones, to create the impression that the animals are not well. The video has been produced by Flamboyant Media on behalf of zoos.media.

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Posted on 28. March 201814. April 2018

zoo-facts

Where do zoo animals come from?

Anti-zoo activists often claim that zoo animals come from the wild, but the hunting expeditions are long gone.
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Posted on 27. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

What do animal rights activists want?

Animal rights activists aim to give animals basic rights and, as they say, release them from all “exploitation conditions”. That is why the movement or at least a part of it is called “animal liberation movement”.

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Posted on 26. March 201813. September 2023

animal rights

What is the difference between animal welfare and animal rights?

A distinction is often drawn between “animal rights”, “animal welfare”, “species conservation” and “nature conservation”, even if the borders are sometimes not quite clear.

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Posted on 25. March 201814. April 2018

animal rights

Is there mutual matter of concern between animal welfare activists and animal rights activists?

Only superficial. Many animal welfare activists, like animal rights activists, for example, refuse factory farming, but animal rights activists do this for other reasons.

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