Sounds like it needed to! Did you even know Gaza had a zoo? The animals are going to better places: https://www.yahoo.com/news/worst-zoo-world-closes-192001628.html World The worst zoo in the world closes Yahoo News Photo Staff Wed, Aug 24 12:20 PM PDT Comments Sign in to like Reblog on Tumblr Share Tweet Email 1/21 The worst zoo in the world closes A tiger named Laziz stands in its enclosure before it is taken out of Gaza by Four Paws International, at a zoo in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 23, 2016. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) An international charity on Wednesday removed 15 animals from a Gaza Strip zoo, freeing them from stifling conditions in what it called the worst zoo in the world and hoping to grant them a better life abroad. Four Paws, an animal welfare group, crossed from Gaza into Israel with a tiger, five monkeys, a porcupine and an emu, among others. Most of the animals are destined for an animal sanctuary in Jordan while the tiger is headed to a refuge in South Africa. The animals removal effectively closed the long-troubled zoo. The charity said the Khan Younis zoo suffered financial difficulties earlier this year and couldnt provide the animals with proper care and food. After the zoo owner asked the organization for help, Four Paws provided food and medical checks. It was later decided that the animals would be transferred elsewhere. The conditions the animals were under were very far from ideal, said Amir Khalil, who is leading the Gaza mission for Four Paws. Their new homes will be a big change. (AP/Reuters) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr. Comments (210) Gaza zoo animals arrive to start new life in Jordan AFP 5 hours ago Comments Sign in to like Reblog on Tumblr Share Tweet Email Amman (AFP) - Animals evacuated this week from a zoo dubbed the "world's worst" in the Palestinian Gaza Strip have arrived at an animal shelter in Jordan, an AFP photographer said on Thursday. Two turtles, two eagles, two porcupines, a pelican, an emu and a deer arrived late Wednesday near Amman after travelling from Gaza via Israel, said Amir Khalil, a vet from the charity organising the transfer. Animal welfare charity Four Paws on Wednesday said it evacuated 15 animals -- including Gaza's last tiger Laziz -- out of the Khan Yunis zoo, as they headed for a new life outside the Israeli-blockaded territory. The tiger was put on a plane and flown to South Africa where it arrived on Thursday, while five monkeys remained in Israel, Khalil said. The animals that arrived in Jordan were placed in quarantine at the New Hope Centre, a shelter near Amman, "while waiting to be transferred somewhere bigger", the vet said. The animals would now have access to food and necessary treatment, Khalil said. Dozens of animals had died at the Khan Yunis zoo, some of starvation, and badly stuffed bodies of dead crocodiles, lions and others were left in the open, surrounded by piles of bones. Four Paws says on its website that Khan Yunis had "been known as the 'worst zoo in the world' since it became public last year that the zoo was crudely mummifying the animals that died in their care and displaying them." There were more than 100 animals housed at the zoo in the years after its 2007 opening, but they were decimated by repeated wars and shortages of customers. The Israeli blockade of the enclave and Egypt's closed border have suffocated its economy, making it increasingly hard for Gazans to find money for leisure. Comments (4)
