I had never considered the zoos in countries like Venezuela. I'm concerned that it seems like they're being fined and punished for their predicament. I think other zoos throughout the world should step up and try to rescue the animals, or at the very least, preserve them for a scientific purpose and euthanize them humanely. Those that are endangered should be removed. It's just a terrible situation for everyone, but the zoo owners and animals aren't at fault, it's the political constraints.

I find the article comical.  In these places, people are starving to death and the concern of some people is whether zoo animals are getting enough to eat.  The zoo animals should be slaughtered to feed people.  The horses slaughtered to feed to animals should be fed to people.  The animals probably shouldn't be in zoos to begin with, but now that they are they shouldn't come before human needs.  That's idiotic.  Just butcher the zoo animals, feed them to people, and be done with the problem.  That's my opinion.

I just read an article about how animals in Venezuela are starving to death because of the turmoil that is happening in that country. I feel like there should be some kind of action plan in place for animals in countries that are experiencing hardship so that they can be transported to other places in times of crisis. The thought of innocent creatures starving to death in cages really turns my stomach.

Honestly the entire story is just so sad and really highlights how devastating the effects of greed are. It's not enough that our policies and hunger for power wreck human lives, we have to wreck entire environments and species, too. I feel so bad for the animals, and it just goes to show how much worse things must be for the actual humans.

In Valenzuela the animals in the zoo are starving.. The staff cannot afford to feed them many days. This is so sad and disturbing. These poor animals have no freedom and cannot go anywhere to find food. That is torture and wrong. Someone needs to step into this sad situation before it gets any worse.