Animals Rights Group To Protest Outside A Bristol Zoo
Bristol Animal Rights Collective are planning to protest outside Noah's Ark Zoo Farm today.
The demonstration from 11am will be part of their continuing campaign against Noah's Ark Zoo Farm. They say the aim is to remind members of the public of the ongoing investigation being undertaken by North Somerset Council, in relation to allegations of animal cruelty.
BARC say they've received overwhelming public support from the public at past protests with passing motorists hooting in support of their cause.
Group spokesperson Jo Penny said: "Our position on zoos is that we don't agree with them, it's not any knid of a life inside a zoo for an animal. With the best will in the world you can't recreate an animals natural habitat or diet or the social structures of the groups within the species, any of that, it's impossible to do it."
She added: "Our ultimate aim is to close the zoo. Two ways we're doing that is by putting pressure on the council for them to revoke the zoo's licence and also by getting their visitor numbers down because if people don't go to the zoo they won't be able to operate."
We've also spoken to Noah's Ark Zoo Farm. A spokeman there said: " We expect business as usual tomorrow with little effect from the small number of BARC protestors who might turn up. We strongly defend our excellent record of animal welfare here at Noah's Ark and expect BARCs allegations be refuted by Council inspectors at our zoo inspection taking place shortly."
He added: "It's fair to say that most people in the zoo industry and those who know Noah's Ark have little time for the BARC, who have lied and mis-represented our business several times over the last few weeks with ridiculous claims - their protest campaign has been very low profile with only a handful of their group and a few home-made signs appearing occasionally at our gates with very little support from the public."
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