The Polar Bear That Was Not Allowed To Be
/Profound sadness is a natural reaction by compassionate people when they hear of the death of a abused animal. But please take a hard long look at the people who let this happen, Arturo's death will not be in vain because of the attention he received, unfortunately Arturo is not an isolated case.
CHINA'S VERSION OF ARTURO?
Arturo the Polar Bear was born in 1985. He was purchased from the US and brought to Argentina in 1993 at age 8, he died Sunday July 3, 2016 after barely existing 22 of his thirty one years in, inhumane conditions at Argentina's Mendoza "Zoo". Despite over 500K signatures via Change.org, the Petition Site, lobbying by celebrities, then President of Chile, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner and Zoo president Gustavo Pronotto said no to a possible legal transfer of Arturo to a Canadian Zoo.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency denied Arturo's permit into Canada because of the lack of medical records from the Zoo. Even if Canada had accepted the bear via legal transfer the Argentine Government and Zoo officials would not have allowed it because if they let Arturo be transferred this would have been a admission to the world of their guilt, ineptitude and vanity. Arturo was the zoo's bread and butter.
PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND MAKE EXCUSES FOR EVERYTHING ELSE
When people don't like something ( African Slavery, The Holocaust, Jim Crow Laws, Apartheid ) for example it may take a while but the practice ends - why not Zoos? Why not criminalize the Animal Menageries of the Rich and Royals too?
That Arturo was allowed to live like a criminal in the last century with indifferent keepers in a Public Zoo? is testament to good intentions by some a little too late. If Arturo had been a child he would have not experienced a hard life of cruel and unusual punishment being the entertainment for unimaginative nannies with kids, freaks and poor lovers with nothing better to do but stare at
( and most likely tease ) a obviously abused animal.
POLAR BEARS BELONG IN ARCTIC CONDITIONS IN THE WILD WITH THEIR FAMILIES - PLEASE HELP TO LEAVE THEM THERE AND RELOCATE THE POLARS IN CAPTIVITY!
DON'T LET ARTURO DIE IN VAIN
If Arturo is the bell weather, captive Polar Bears and the rest of the Big Beasts being hunted by the privileged effete who boast about it via social media, the "extreme huntresses" who pose with their dead kill and show these images to their children or the Asians who pay to have Elephants killed for their Ivory, and ( the 100 million sharks killed so Asians can feel more sexy eating Shark Fin soup ) - will be extinct.
PLEASE stop asking yourself: "What is wrong with these people" and start asking yourself: "What about the people who stood by and let Arturo languish?!"
“Every part of a polar bear’s body is designed for snow, for ice, for predatory habits and roaming huge distances,” Mackay said. “For 30 years, Arturo was deprived of it.”
