THE "world's saddest zoo" has a blind bear that's been locked in a cage for 30 years and miserable monkeys that have been kept in darkness.

Brit animal welfare groups are trying to get the centre, which has been given the sick name "Salvation Park", shut down.



<sub>Nelson, who is blind, has been stuck in a cage for 30 yearsCredit: Roger Allen North Downs Picture Agency



The animals are left in appalling conditionsCredit: Roger Allen North Downs Picture Agency</sub>


Dozens of other animals, including a lioness and monkeys are held in the dark in a dilapidated barn, were discovered when officials visited the zoo in Armenia.

The owner claims he rescued the animals from hunters and traffickers.



<sub>Brit animals rights campaigners are trying to get the zoo shut downCredit: Roger Allen North Downs Picture Agency



One distressed goat constantly charges at the bars of his cageCredit: Roger Allen North Downs Picture Agency</sub>


But one UK charity described conditions as "shocking and among the worst we’ve seen".

The Armenian government is under pressure to shut down the delipidated animal park.

Among the tragic animals is a blind bear, nicknamed Nelson, that has been kept in a squalid cage with no room to exercise for three decades.

His teeth are rotting, but his eyesight could be saved with surgery.

Sara, a 13-year-old lioness, has been trapped for seven years in a space no bigger than a garden shed, campaigners say.

There is also a group of monkeys held in a stinking barn without daylight for years - and an eagle unable to spread its wings in a tiny cage.



_{Birds barely have enough space to spread their wings}


The zoo also has an Armenian goat that constantly charges the bars of its ramshackle pen.

The country's government is debating an animal welfare bill that would close the zoo down.

UK-based International Animal Rescue (IAR) has been trying to save Nelson the bear but the owner Armen Tadevosyan, 71, refuses to give him up.

He claims his animals are well looked after at the zoo in Armavir a small town 25 miles west of Armenia’s capital, Yerevan.



_{Monkeys left in the darkCredit: Roger Allen North Downs Picture Agency}


IAR president, Alan Knight OBE, said: "The conditions these poor animals are living in are nothing short of hell on earth.

"The cages are small, filthy and dilapidated to say the least, and the animals have no choice but to stand in the squalor with nothing to break their boredom and frustration.

"The idea that members of the public would choose to pay money to see these captive animals suffering behind bars is just laughable.

"We’ve been trying to rescue the bear, who we called Nelson, for months now with no success, but clearly all the animals in so-called Salvation Park are in urgent need of proper care and attention.

"As an animal welfare organisation, we are ready and willing to help ensure they get it."

IAR has a bear rescue centre in Armenia and has so far saved 30 animals.

Alan Knight added: "It’s a stain on the international reputation of Armenia that it allows sentient creatures to suffer such cruelty and neglect.

"I urge the government to step in right away and force the closure of the park so that the animals can be given proper food and care for the first time in years.

"There is no excuse for such cruelty and neglect and I know there will be a public outcry when people read about it.

"That is the only humane and compassionate course of action."



_{The Armenian government is debating an animal welfare bill that could see the zoo close downCredit: Roger Allen North Downs Picture Agency}

Source: The Sun News

Sickening...

It would have been best to kill those poor animals and get them out of this misery of solitary confinement/imprisonment for no apparent crime committed other than being "animals".

Someday, some higher " animal/terrestrial beings" will mete out same injustice to us "inhumane humans".

Poor Blind Bear especially

But atleast they have been feeding the bear for 30years so far

Wow this is very pathetic and severely damaged environment even for an animal.

NwaNimo1:
Nigeria is the worlds 'Saddest Zoo'......

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.....those animals should be grateful!

Nigeria is the worlds 'Saddest Zoo'......

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.....those animals should be grateful!

May all to tinubu supporters keep receiving old old tins in their life.for example wen others are gifted private jet as gift.may there be given 1605 before christ tortoise volkswagen car.

Ok

Animal cruelty

Wish it was Buhari who had his eyes plucked out and thrown into the dungeon for 30 million years

Saddest indeed

If they allow just ten Nairalanders into that zoo, all those animals will be put out of their long misery … and inside pot of stew.

Humans can be wicked

These animals are treated bad according to animal right conservatives. But if they come to Nigeria & see that thin lion in Kano abi Abuja zoo nko?
Make lion dey do dry fasting like prophet sotey it come thin.
They should come n close down almost all Nigerian zoo.

I almost broke down in tears for that blind bear. So touching, Armenia government needs to do something and do it fast that's inhumane to animals.

This is sad

Uprightness100:


Very terrible and pathetic condition.
He/She is Blind and yet locked inside.

This is the Condition of so many people today. The devil has blinded them and padlocked fans bottled them. The Unfortunate thing is that many are not even aware that they are in such condition. They are just helplessly living. Others think what is happening to them is what they come out of by their power, only to end up in endless Problems.

Listen Folks! You can't use Physical to fight Spiritual. It is a Wasted and Fruitless Exercise.

You need to run in to JESUS Christ, Embrace HIM with all your Heart, so HE will take over your Matters.
The Genuie Salvation of your soul is the Greatest achievement you can Ever have.

Always turning everything Into sermon

World saddest zoo? At least the animals in that zoo are fed daily unlike the animals in Nigerian zoo.

Chai

If only this was the problem of Nigeria

Someone said those animal should be greatful.

An Elephant died in Nigerian experts custody. The tusk might either be in one forieng museum by now, or on display as a finished product in one forieng store.

Nigerian zoos are not any better. An example is the UI zoo.

So sad but the animals are even looking fresher and fatter than the ones we have in our zoo over here!

Where Lions be skinny like hell!