Just one day after a coalition of animal welfare groups wrote to the Vietnam government highlighting animal abuse at the Dam Sen theme park in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, the park confirmed they have temporarily stopped wild animal performances.
The letter from the Asia for Animals coalition– which includes Animals Asia – highlighted the abusive training methods and unsuitable accommodation provided for the animals as well as questioning the origin of many wild species seen in performances.
Now the Dam Sen theme park will have to explain how it obtained protected species.
Animals Asia is currently lobbying Vietnam’s central government to ban all wild animal performance throughout the nation and send the animals to sanctuaries in light of the NGO’s 2017 report revealing widespread animal cruelty and potential illegality.
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Prelude no. 14 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Attribution License
