Zookeeper death
A zookeeper death in Jiangxi is no accident. At Chuntai Park in Yichun city, East China’s Jiangxi province a tiger mauled a worker after the cage was left unlocked. Not “bad luck,” as was quickly announced, but captivity’s inevitable failure. Every time, it ends the same way: a dead worker, a condemned tiger, and the zoo excused.
Reports say the victim was a cleaner. Alone. No secured enclosure, no backup, while the tiger acted like a tiger. The real blame lies with the system that treats predators as exhibits. Zoos push culture and conservation but deliver cages and cruelty.
China calls Chuntai Park a “cultural site.” But what culture exactly? The culture of trapping animals until they kill or die? The culture of forcing children to believe in conservation lies? State and public feed the illusion, but when it collapses, only the tiger pays.
This is not an isolated case. It is part of a global pattern — and this zookeeper death that underlines why zoos and tigers can never coexist.
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Based on The Daily Star, Bangladesh.
Photo via China Daily.
