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"By the end, his ribs were sticking out," Hryhoryev said.
On a recent visit, the zoo saw desolate. The elephant's pen stood vacant, a lonesome wolf paced an open-air enclosure, a accumulation of farm animals was closed to observers and two giraffes were locked in two small indoor compartments.
KIEV, Ukraine An Indian elephant called Boy, the pride of the Kiev Zoo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], collapsed and died in his enclosure. Around the same time, Maya the camel succumbed to a absorbent cancer and Theo the zebra died after breaking into a metal fence.


Others differ. Serhiy Hryhoryev, a zoo worker who has set up a group to protect the animals, believes that Boy was killed at a yo-yo diet. He said zoo staff considered Boy to be overweight and put him on a diet of primarily water and hay, causing him to lose more than a third of his weight in 4 months.

The zoo's problems grew aggravate below the leadership of the city's abnormal syndic, Leonid Chernovetsky, who has been warmhearted accused of mismanagement. Under his named zoo director, Svitlana Berzina, approximately a 15 min of the animals died and distinct quarter disappeared in the two years ahead she was ousted in October, along to the current zoo adviser, Oleksiy Tolstoukhov.
Other violations embodied the purchase of medicine for yet deceased apes, paying for hyenas that were never shipped to the zoo, the unlawful sale of 12 macaques, the unrecorded marketing of zoo stamps and the misallocation of funds earmarked for feeding zoo animals. The violations totaled 1.6 million hryvna ($200,000 or euro140,000), according to Irina Parkhomenko, spokeswoman for the government auditing agent.


Once the gem of the Ukrainian capital and a preference weekend speck for families, the zoo began to disintegrate after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the years of poverty that followed. Animals were kept in cramped, poorly lit and poorly heated enclosures, fed improperly and left alone, according to watchdogs.

Then Boy was put behind aboard beets, carrots and apples, which occasioned quick heaviness acquire, which Hryhoryev said led to the elephant's heart failure. An autopsy was inconclusive.
New managers appointed in October said that approximately half of the zoo's animals either died or mysteriously disappeared over two years under their ancestors, and a government audit found that thousands of dollars were misspent as animals were illegally sold and funds earmarked for their food and care disappeared. Ukrainian prosecutors have also opened an inquiry.
The animals just keep on dying at the Kiev Zoo, a place some have compared to an unkempt warehouse as those with pelt and feathers. Animal welfare groups mention dozens if not hundreds of animals have died at the zoo in recent years deserving to malnutrition, a lack of remedial concern and mistreatment and some guess that corruption is at the heart of the problem.



But antagonism the management change, the zoo's animals are still dying. Some activists suspect a secluded real possession deal is in the goes that the zoo is being deliberately decimated so it can be closed down and the premier land that it sits on in the centre of Kiev can be sold.
Naturewatch, a British-based animal welfare group, is in the unions crying for the 100-year-old zoo to be closed and its animals sent somewhere in Europe.

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The aged brown bear labeled Dinara had been pushed from a small enclosure where she had spent all her life to a bigger pen with a male Malayan sun bear. Stressed by the new premises and her new colleague, Dinara began to bang her head opposition the concrete walls of the enclosure, leaving blood smudges on the wall and ground. After days of this, she was euthanized.
A month after, Maya the camel died. Hryhoryev said zoo operators failed to remedy her for abdominal bloating after a sudden diet alteration. The zoo, however, reproached the death on a weird poisoner, a middle-aged man with an earring who just happened to resemble the whistleblower Hryhoryev. He was bombarded from his job but then reinstated through a tribunal array late last year.
Theo the zebra died in late March after creature separated from his female companions, as the animals were let outdoor after costing the winter in cramped indoor dwelling. The masculine zebra threw himself into a metal fence in a desperate attempt to reach the females.
Officials are having a hard period determining exactly how many animals died alternatively disappeared under the before treatment. The zoo now has 2,600 animals from 328 species.
Oleksandr Mazurchak, deputy brain of the Kiev metropolis ministry, said about 250 animals died due to "problems" during two years under Berzina. The government inspect last year likewise base that 131 additional animals were missing.
Mazurchak said 50 animals have died since Tolstoukhov took over, though maximum from old old. But some deaths could have been averted, like those of the 3 fish that died in late December when a power outage stopped the flow of oxygen into their tank.
Defending his disc, the new director said the zoo has no bought whichever new animals in recent years due to funding deficits and 60 percent of the zoo's animals are approximating the end of their normal life span anyhow.
"It's not as bad as they say," Tolstoukhov said. "In all the zoos, including in Europe, animals don't live a million years. They also dead and get sick."
But Volodymyr Boreiko,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one ecologist who has monitored evolutions by the zoo, said in a report final week namely the digit of animals that have died since the new managers took over in October namely closer to 250 and includes a penguin, a crane, turkeys and mongooses. The zoo said his discoveries are falsified.
Tolstoukhov said the zoo hopes to fascinate funds to reinstate existing enclosures and build new ones, and to fix the heating, atmosphere conditioning and electric systems. The zoo also plans to earn new animals, including two youth female elephants and 12 blue sheep.
He denied any plans to sell the 34 hectares (84 acres) of land the zoo occupies in chief Kiev.
Luisa Kuznetsova, 26, who came to the zoo last week with her 2-year-old twins Kolya and Karina, hopes it can be saved.
"I absence there to be a smart zoo here with always the beautiful animals for the kids are growing and the zoo assists them amplify," Kuznetsova said for the duals saw a giraffe offer to kiss them through a glass wall.
But Tamara Tarnavska of the Kiev-based SOS beast rights team believes the zoo must be closed to protect its animals from beyond abuse.
"The zoo is in such a condition that it's no longer a zoo, it's a concentration camp," Tarnavska said. "When I look those animals in the eyes, I am ashamed to be a person being."

Boy, the biggest Indian elephant in a European zoo, collapsed in his enclosure and died in April at age 39. Berzina denied any wrongdoing and demanded the elephant was poisoned.
The Kiev Zoo gained multinational notoriety in 2007 while it was expelled from the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria after the tragic decease of a female bear.

"The Kiev Zoo will not attain any basic criteria, it's even now cleared from any zoo in Europe," said John Ruane of Naturewatch. "The conditions have been absolutely horrendous and no matter how many more directors were appointed the situation still remained the same."