Dear John,

I need your urgent help to take action for animals!

Will you take action today and ask WOWCHER to remove Yorkshire Wildlife Park from their promotions?

Picture this: the zoo has finally closed after visiting hours, the nocturnal animals start to rise and explore their enclosures, and the diurnal animals settle down after a long day of human interaction and peering eyes. But suddenly, loud music and light blasts across the zoo, crowds cheer and shout, and the relative peace they rarely get to experience is over.

Why is this happening? 

Our most recent blog highlighted the atrocities taking place within many zoos across the country, with prominent zoos such as Yorkshire Wildlife Park hosting distressing live music events within the captive animals' already unnatural environments, often after-hours.

Many studies from the ‘Applied Animal Behaviour Science Journal’ have already stated how high levels of noise and resulting vibrations are known to cause significant distress responses in zoo animals, with many zoos responding to concerns by claiming to lock the animals in their enclosures for the duration of the concert to diminish their stress. 

Why should animals have to be locked into even more cramped conditions within their already lacking enclosures in order for more people to enter the zoo and have a party?

We all, as animal advocates, know these events need to stop. Of course - parties and animals do not mix, and we cannot allow them to continue.

https://www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/wowcher-stop-promoting-yorkshire-wildlife-park/

Why are we targeting Wowcher?

Wowcher continuously promote 50% off tickets for the “Big Safari Nights” event on its platform, helping the zoo reach a wider audience and thereby creating larger crowds for each show. This means more people and, in turn, more noise and disturbance, causing unprecedented levels of stress and discomfort to the zoo's animal inhabitants. 

Wowcher is driving demand through discounted tickets - and funding animal suffering by doing so.

Nights of torture

You may remember Freedom for Animals undercover investigation at Bristol Zoo's “Big Night Out” event in July 2016, where we caught zoo staff on camera stating how the loud music and visitors present “do stress [the animals] out” so they were “stereotyping” by pacing back and forth to cope. And another, expose in 2012 at the “Zoo Project” held at Port Lympne Zoo, when investigators filmed drunk visitors harassing the animals, threatening to jump into enclosures and selling drugs on the premises. 

Yorkshire Wildlife Park is exposing animals to this abuse by holding these events. The negative impacts are consistently unsettling, and continue to put animals at risk.

We are calling on Wowcher to end the advertising of such cruel and unnecessary events, and we need your help!

Please take action and send an email to Wowcher, explaining why they need to cut ties with Yorkshire Wildlife Park, and stop funding animal cruelty. 

Read our new blog to find out more about why we are calling for Wowcher to stop promoting Yorkshire Wildlife Park

What you can do to help animals!

Using our online form contact Wowcher and ask them to stop promoting Yorkshire Wildlife Park events. 

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