"PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE
Lima, November 21, 2008.
Individuals for Animal Liberation.
To the civilian community, visual and written press, environmental groups and collectives and individuals that fight for the abolition of Animal, Human and Earth exploitation, we declare the following:
• On Friday, November 21 of this year, in the early morning hours, we carried out a direct action and rescue for Animal Liberation in the Parque Zoológico Huachipa, located in the city of Lima at Km. 9.5 on the central highway in Peru.
• Our actions were directed at smashing animal exploitation, our efforts focused on the direct action of releasing animals and returning them to their natural habitat.
• We consider it necessary to explain what our action consisted of, due to the blockage of information by the Zoo and the news media that have focused all their attention on the APEC meeting in Lima. We entered between Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning. We cut and opened more than thirty cages
for birds of different species, managing to free more than 50 birds, including Toucans, Owls and other tropical birds and indigenous species of Peru. We also climbed to the top of the mega cage for birds that has been an animal prison, sabotaging its structure with the hope that birds such as parrots, macaws, pigeons, doves, toucans, and white herons locked up in this mega-aviary could find an exit from this life of imprisonment and fly free. Afterwards we were prepared for the most important part of the action, to carry two jungle cats, ocelots, in cages specially suited to them, and to transfer them to their natural habitat; these animals were transported and later released into wild space, the ecosystem of the low jungle of Peru, in order to give them the possibility of a free life far from the harassing looks of tourists, consumers of animal exploitation.
• We believe it necessary to mention and to denounce animal traffickers and zoos and other responsible parties acting as accomplices of state institutions, acquiring animals from the hands of vile traffickers that find no better business than to imprison these free beings in small spaces like those of the animals we freed. These animals were in small cages, groups of up to eight birds per cage, without the ability to fly or interact freely, they were found with clear symptoms of stress caused by the overcrowding, proximity to their natural predators and lack of sunlight. Many of the animals that we freed were found in an area that was off-limits to visitors of the zoo, that was not even on the map of the park, imprisoned in tents, without sunlight and without sufficient space needed to spread out naturally.
• We denounce as well the imprisonment of rodents, turtles, birds and other small animals in plastic containers with the purpose of serving as food for other species; those we found spinning in circles, typical behavior of animals with nervous disorders caused by confinement, the vast majority waiting for utilization later, demonstrating the falsehood and double talk of the companies that work as alleged institutions of preservation and species conservation, who are truly companies of animal exploitation, always operating with speciesist disregard for the interests of the individuals of other species.
• We also denounce the conditions in which the felines that we released were found; they were located in cages of no more than two square meters, side by side, preventing their free exercise of interests and abilities, destroying their instincts and subjecting their wild nature to the egotistic interests of executives who disguise their business of exploitation as conservation. A claim that we denounce as false, due to the conditions of which we were witnesses to when entering this mega animal prison, where animals supposedly in recuperation were kept locked up for display later as objects of entertainment.
• We want to make a call to all collectives and individuals who struggle and are active for Animal, Human and Earth Liberation to act directly towards achieving total liberation, taking into account the interests of those captured under the exploitative hands of owners of zoos, bullfights, animal breeders, the fur industry, meat industry, circuses with animals and an endless number of places of animal exploitation and death; take the necessary security measures, to ensure safe liberations as much for activists as for people not responsible for this imprisonment, like the wage earners in these capitalist companies, also victims of exploitation.
• We want to emphasize as well that liberation through direct action is something we can all be a part of, we do not need special training nor to be part of any organization, just to act with a couple of tools and an attitude open to taking risks in pursuit of the elimination of speciesism and Animal, Human and Earth exploitation, being always clear that race, sex, color, level of intelligence, language, sexual orientation, or in this case species, are not indicators of superiority or inferiority, but individual characteristics. Individuals are deserving of respect on the basis of their own desires and interests, advancing our ethics to a true unfolding of solidarity and egalitarianism.
For Animal, Human and Earth Liberation.
INDIVIDUALS FOR ANIMAL LIBERATION
Until we are all free..."ORIGINAL SOURCE: BITE BACK Magazine
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