CIGS Zoo, Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil
The Military zoo serves as safe haven for jaguars, monkeys, tapirs, sloths, and numerous kinds of birds and Amazonian fish that have been removed illegally from their natural habitats or forced from those regions because of development.
The animals are brought to the zoo by environmental groups who have rescued them from hunters and animal traffickers, who cage them before they are sold for profit.
At the zoo – the only place these animals can be housed – workers tend to the animals’ wounds and help them recuperate before the vast majority are released. However, those that are seriously injured and would not survive in the wild remain at the zoo.
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