Saturday 13th February 2010 - Noah's Ark Zoo Farm Demo

Noah's Ark Zoo Farm decided to celebrate Valentine's Day with a themed day at the zoo, so we thought it would be rude of us not to be there too. It was clearly not a popular event, visitor numbers were down on last Saturday, which wasn't many to begin with. Despite newspaper reports claiming 300 people were there last Saturday we know the true figure was a lot lower (we saw about 50 cars go in), perhaps they included the staff and the animals when they did the head count.

At times it seemed every other car was tooting in support of our protest, public feeling against the zoo is clearly quite strong, it's hard to imagine they will be around much longer, especially with the council investigation hanging over their heads.

The zoo were so unhappy about the glossy new leaflets we got printed for last week's protest that they had printed some of their own counter leaflets, claiming that all our allegations are untrue. When you've got a business to protect maybe it's easy to convince yourself that you are animal lovers really and stick your head in the sand over the video evidence proving the contrary.

Anthony Bush came out to talk at us again, he's quite an odd fellow, with some rather wacky points of view. Just google 'Noah's Ark Zoo Farm' and 'creationism' to see for yourself!

Demos will continue from now onwards most Saturdays.

What can you do:
Contact BARC for information on future protests: www.bristolanimalrights.org.uk
Write to the council asking them to revoke Noah's Ark's zoo licence: graham.turner@n-somerset.gov.uk
Sign our online petition against the zoo.
Don't visit any zoos or animal circuses: www.captiveanimals.org

Next demo:
Sat 27th Feb, 11am at the zoo: Clevedon Road, Wraxall, Bristol, BS48 1PG

View the BBC TV programme, Inside Out West online here.