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Spring River Park & Zoo, operated by the city of Roswell, New Mexico, confines animals to cramped, unsafe cages. The roadside zoo claimed that it would make improvements for the animals, yet nothing meaningful has been done.
After becoming ensnared in a gap of fencing that staff didn’t know about, an elk named Patty “irreparably shattered” her leg and needed to be euthanized. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued the facility a critical, repeat citation for failing to maintain safe enclosures. This seemingly chronic problem has led to the escape of both a bear and a beaver, and the latter was never found. Additionally, the roadside zoo’s perimeter fencing failed to keep out a pack of wild dogs, resulting in the death of four animals. The facility continues to put animals at risk because of poorly constructed enclosures.
For years, bears Sierra and Ursula have been stuck in a pit that’s like a dungeon straight out of the Dark Ages to them. Concrete substrate causes and exacerbates physical ailments in bears, including painful and debilitating arthritis.
The facility keeps animals such as foxes, coatis, and lemurs in cramped corncrib cages. Instead of using its limited resources to make important and necessary improvements for the health and welfare of the animals there, Spring River Zoo acquired more animals, including three capybaras, destined to live out their days in misery at this ramshackle roadside zoo. But you can help them!
PETA has repeatedly offered to aid Spring River Zoo in transferring the animals to accredited facilities where they would have safe, comfortable habitats to live in—but it has refused, leaving them to suffer in barren, dangerous enclosures. Confining any animal this way is cruel and a form of speciesism—a human-supremacist worldview.
Speak up today by urging Spring River Zoo to transfer the animals to accredited facilities.