Rescue Yupi the Polar Bear from Scorching Mexican Zoo
- af: Andrew
- mottagare: Morelia Zoo, local officials and municipal president Wilfrido Lázaro Medina
For 17 hours a day she is locked in a circular holding pen just 15ft wide, which consists solely of a damp concrete floor and walls. Even her tiny pool is too warm, and filled with chlorine. Yupi arrived at the city zoo in Morelia, Mexico, at just a few months old and was put in an old grizzly bear pen, where she has remained for the past 21 years. It’s empty of anything for her to do, so Yupi spends all day, every day, sitting in a small patch of shade, repetitively pacing, or trying to cool off in her pool.
Now there is a campaign to rehome Yupi a little closer to her natural territory, where the weather is colder and she’ll get to play in the snow with other bears as she should.
The Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster, England, is building a state-of-the-art $1.2 million USD (£750,000) polar bear reserve and research centre on a vast 15 acre site. It will feature naturally crafted hills, lakes and Arctic plants. Here Yupi will be able to swim, forage and roam around alongside other bears the park hopes to rescue from cruel conditions around the world. The park will also be dedicating a specialist keeper to keep the intelligent predators stimulated with a range of activities from scent-marking to hunting games. Importantly, the site will not be captively breeding.
Please help by showing your support to encourage the relocation of Yupi to these better conditions so that she can enjoy her later life in comfort. In doing so we believe this would enhance the Morelia Zoo's reputation as a forward thinking, ethical facility and a leader amongst Mexican zoos.
(Sources: Mirror News & SaveYupi.com)
- Relocating Yupi would enhance the Morelia Zoo's reputation as a forward thinking, ethical facility and a leader amongst Mexican zoos.
- Viewing opportunities are limited to partial observation through several cloudy windows.
- As the only Arctic species, Yupi is out of place in the Morelia Zoo's collection of temperate and tropical animal species.
- Morelia has a warm climate year-round and Yupi is not provided with a cold environment.
- Yupi's enclosure is grossly undersized and does not provide enough room to facilitate natural movements, excerise and behaviours.
- Yupi's enclosure is almost devoid of structural enhancements, furnishings or materials to encourage natural movements or behaviours. Yupi's daily management regime is predictable and simplistic.
- Yupi is locked in a small off-exhibit holding area (a small concrete room) up to 16 hours each day. The floors are smooth concrete and there is sparse natural light inside the holding area.
- Yupi's outdoor enclosure is comprised entirely of hard concrete surfaces. There are no natural substrate areas provided to encourage natural digging and foraging behaviours or for the making of day beds.
- Yupi's outdoor enclosure does not provide sufficient shade or relief from Morelia's warm climate. The water in Yupi's pool is not cooled.
- Yupi engages in prolonged bouts of stereotypic behaviours and/or is lethargic - clear indications of an abnormal interaction between herself and her surroundings.
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