Animal rights activists have filed a report with the police about an illegal traveling exhibition "World of Turtles" in Kamianets-Podilskyi, where animals are kept in cramped aquariums and used for photo shoots.
The Law No. 3447-IV "On the Protection of Animals from Cruelty" prohibits the activity of mobile exhibitions of wild animals and photo services with them, UAnimals reported on Facebook.
The report says that large turtles are kept in cramped aquariums, and one is so trapped by glass that it cannot turn the other way. Two large turtles are sitting in an open enclosure, where children are constantly taking pictures with them.
"On the video from an eyewitness, you can also see how the turtles try to climb out to the other side, but the man pulls them by the shell and feeds them so that they chew and do not move. This horror for turtles continues all day long, as long as there are people willing to take pictures, they wrote. – Parents, why do you teach your children to mock animals?".
Animal rights activists have also criticized the police for ignoring animal cruelty, with advertisements about the illegal zoo plastered all over the city.
Activists demand to check the documentation of the exhibition regarding the animals, as well as to remove them.
UAnimals added that this exhibition was in Poltava in June 2023. At that time, the residents talked about the fact that children kicked the turtles in open enclosures, and some animals were in very tight aquariums.
"UAnimals filed a report with the police, but while the police were going to "prosecute" the exhibition, the exhibition left," said the animal rights activists.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that zoo activists accused the police of ignoring the facts of cruel treatment of animals at the Nemo Dolphinarium in Odesa, where in April bloggers had a photo shoot with the animals in a hotel room.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Ternopil the police drew up a protocol against the initiators of an exhibition with wild animals in the shopping center "Podolyani" for an inappropriate article (improper keeping of dogs and cats). The exhibition featured snakes, fish, turtles and a monkey in cramped cages in inappropriate conditions, and visitors were offered to take pictures with the monkey and snakes for money.
