Venezuela Venezuela’s zoo animals are starving, and a one-time actor wants to airlift them out By Jim Wyss. Updated May 20, 2018 2:48 PM. READ MORE. Misery stalks Venezuela.

Some 50 animals have starved to death at one of Venezuela’s major zoos as the chronic food shortages continue, a union leader has said.. The animals have all died within the last six months ...

Venezuela is losing at least 900,000 animals every year to the $320 million illegal wildlife trade. Among the birds sold to the pet trade are 50 species of New World parrot, ...

Animals at a zoo in the Venezuelan state of Zulia are dying of starvation as the country dives deeper into a food shortage. Screenshot: Christian Veron Twitter ...

Reports in from Venezuela that starving people in that country, the beneficiaries of those glories of Bolivarian socialism, are now breaking into the zoos and butchering the animals in order to be ...

MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela authorities are investigating the theft of animals from a zoo in western state of Zulia that were likely snatched to be eaten, a further sign of hunger ...

And Venezuela isn’t the only place where animals have been hurt by a poor social climate. Global Threat In March, the World Post reported 200 animals dead at the Khan Younis Zoo in southern Gaza.

Zoo animals in Venezuela are being stolen and eaten as the country sinks further into a food shortage crisis, local police have said. The Zulia Metropolitan Zoological Park in the city of ...

For decades, Poggi released into the urban area dozens of these animals that he received from people tired of keeping them at home. This was not the only cause of the macaws’ proliferation, but ...

Authorities in Venezuela are investigating a spate of recent thefts of zoo animals in a trend thought to be linked to the country’s severe food shortages. “What we presume is that they [were ...