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Dear John,

Last week we shared with you our latest undercover investigation at Cumbria Safari Zoo - formerly known as South Lakes Zoo.

The new videos from the investigation show…. nothing has changed.

All last year we deployed an undercover investigator, to go in as a volunteer and what we found was shocking!

Now we need your help...

Will you send a gift today so we can ensure we can continue to fight for animals like Mona and Zippy, two elderly Andean bears currently captive in the zoo?

With YOUR support I know we can close this zoo, dubbed ‘the UK’s worst zoo’
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Below is just an overview of the investigators findings and what you will see in the videos, it is a disgrace! 

  • Sick and injured animals
  • Overcrowding
  • Flooding of enclosures 
  • Stereotypical behaviours
  • Poor husbandry
You can view the videos here: www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/south-lakes-zoo-video
Investigator "Early on in my volunteering role I was asked to help search for a baby kangaroo who was missing.

What we found will live with me forever. In the kangaroo enclosure is a pond. Unbelievably there’s no fence, and there, floating at the edge of the pond was the baby. How long they lay there dead, I do not know, but I do know that I was not supposed to see that and I was ushered away very quickly".

Sadly, it is too late for those who have already become victims of this zoo, but it is not too late for those still there. 

Your gift could help with:

> £5 will help equip more grassroots groups with campaign materials to hold protests outside this zoo. 

> £10 will ensure we are here to listen to whistleblowers as they come forward and be ready to take action.

> £20 will help pay for a legal advisor so we can present the strongest case to fight for these animals.

As you know we have been campaigning for this for many years, but we always come up against support for the zoo and a council that won’t take appropriate action.

But that’s why we are here. To make them listen and share the truth.

Investigator "I was shocked when I heard a staff member say that lemurs had seemingly frozen to death outside at night as they don’t always want to come in.

They also said that babies can be abandoned by their mothers and on one of my days we found a baby lemur, just lying on the floor. They still had their umbilical cord attached.
Later I was told they died.

Could these events have been prevented? Are they caused by the overcrowding issues with the lemurs?"

Now we are ramping up pressure on the council to take action and demanding that they close this zoo once and for all.

With your help I know we can achieve this.
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I know times are tough for so many of us right now, but if you are able to, please send a gift today.

You can help make the closure of this zoo a reality!

We wont give up on these animals until they have all reached safety and I know you won't either.

For the animals,



Laura Tomlinson
Fundraising Manager
Freedom for Animals

P.S. Please, send a gift of £5 or more today to help the animals who are still imprisoned in Cumbria Safari Zoo. You will help close this zoo once and for all! www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/donate/donate
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Funds raised from this appeal will support our campaign to close down this zoo. If we raise more than we need it will be put towards our wider work for animal freedom. Thank you.


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