Overview

• Zoo director Dag Encke confirmed that detailed preparations for culling surplus Guinea baboons are underway without a firm execution date.
• A Welsh sanctuary approached for transfers has indicated it cannot accommodate any of the overpopulated primates.
• Protesters from Animal Rebellion Deutschland reenacted the planned killings with toy weapons and staged gluing actions at the zoo entrance.
• Polizei Mittelfranken is investigating potential assembly-law violations by demonstrators who chained or glued themselves during weekend actions.
• Animal welfare groups warn that euthanizing healthy baboons for population control may breach German law and set a precedent for non-therapeutic zoo killings.