Overview

• Dr Dag Encke says officers are investigating threats that included promises to kill staff and feed them to lions.
• On July 29 the zoo euthanised 12 healthy Guinea baboons after their troop grew beyond the capacity of an enclosure built for 25 adults.
• Tiergarten Nuremberg maintains that relocation and contraception efforts failed, making culling necessary to prevent inbreeding and aggression.
• Activists who climbed the zoo’s fences in protest of the cull were arrested, decrying the practice as treating animals as disposable commodities.
• Animal welfare groups including Pro Wildlife have lodged legal complaints and invoked precedents from Copenhagen Zoo’s 2014 giraffe cull and Aalborg Zoo’s pet-donation scheme to demand stricter oversight.