MALTREATMENT? Rights advocates said some of the park’s enclosures are too small to allow animals to roam more freely and living conditions remain poorBy Liao Hsueh-ju and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Animal rights advocates and legislators yesterday protested an application by Leofoo Village Theme Park to import three giraffes from Mexico, citing the premature deaths of eight giraffes at the park over the past decade.
The park in Hsinchu County’s Guansi Township (關西) claims to be the first zoo in Asia to be combined with a theme park and resort hotel, with more than 1,000 animals from about 70 species.
However, it has been fraught with controversy since its opening in 1976, the Taiwan Animal Equality Association and Life Conservationist Association told a news conference in Taipei.
After just three years of operation in