The owners of Amazon World have warned that the future of the business is at risk, as they’ve not made enough money to guarantee survival through the winter months.
Taking to social media yesterday (Thursday), the Newchurch-based attraction said that during the past 4 months they have not made enough money to ensure survival through to Easter 2021. The business has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic throughout 2020.
As a zoo, Amazon World is asking the Government for help but this is not guaranteed and even if successful the funding won’t cover all of the monthly running costs.
The team says that not knowing if they will definitely be able to open again in December is also causing extra worry, although it does appear that the current lockdown will end on 2nd December.
Amazon World says they need your help now more than ever to save the zoo. Islanders are being asked to donate to a new crowdfunding page at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-our-zoo-2020, adopt one of the amazing animals by visiting http://www.amazonworld.co.uk/pdf/animal_adoption.pdf or donate fresh veg to help feed the animals.
A spokesperson has said:
“Thank you so much to everyone for all your kind offers of support once again, your support throughout the year already has helped tremendously but the worry is not over”.
You bring animals from their natural habitats from other countries to this country for profit to entertain people.. I will not support zoos….
Many feel the same about ‘humans’ being brought here to be profited from by the employers, but cause lack of homes, overcrowding and the vilest of crimes for those who live amongst such. Yet we have to pay for them via stealth taxes for their subsidised rent,,c.tax, child allowance, tax credits free NHS and education costs
A Sloth is cheap and a delight in comparison to many.
Hold on I love animals, but what about the 500k worth of cars that the owner has, aston martin bentleys!!!!!!and the two plots of building that he is building next to his house wirth 1.2million each what a joke , he ahouldbe thinking about his business not his pocket discusting man !!!!!!..how dare he ask fir money when hes got more money than 90 percent of the island!!!!! Look after your animals you cretin!!!!!
He is thinking about his business you idiot .try reading the article .What car he drives is of no relevance.
Absolutely nothing to do with what car somebody drives as to survival of the zoo how on earth is any business supposed to survive without help in this pandemic personal attacks and jealousy and narrowminded disgusting mentality Are not called for here.
We talking about enslaved animals so f your taxes worry for humans now mixing to topic about zoos which enslave animals for profit….
You officially don’t know what your talking about. Most zoos around the UK and the world do breeding programs for animals which are at risk of Extinction! I believe Amazon World is one of them zoos.
Sanctuaries YES zoos NO.. Sanctuaries help animals Zoos enslave animals for profit….
Dystopian world its obviously you dont really care about the welfare of these animal’s.They need food bedding and warmth & love,if they run out of funds,what happens to these animals?probably get put to sleep if no one can rehome them,because all zoos are struggling in these hard times…
Sanctuaries YES zoos NO.. Sanctuaries help animals Zoos enslave animals for profit….
You are aware they do a lot of conservation work??!!
You will get what you wish for by 2030. Zoos closed, animals back to their natural habitat,and no cats and dogs as pets!
These Zoos may very well be the last places we would see these animals, most of them are going instinct. Having them in a zoo where they have a stimulated environment is much better then them being hunted and killed to extinction.
Just a suggestion,if all the island supermarkets donate fruit & veg which they would throw away because of the sell by date you food shortage would be solved.could be worth ringing them up ask for help to feed amazons Beautiful animals.
Just a suggestion,if all the island supermarkets donate fruit & veg which they would throw away because of the sell by date your food shortage would be solved.could be worth ringing them up ask for help to feed amazons Beautiful animals and birds.
Also Trev a donation box in Supermarkets for such a place would be welcome by me.
I’d Rather feed the animals than donate food for those charity kept beings we are already ‘keeping’ via our taxes as they get child allowance, child tax credits, free rent and c. tax, free education and health treatment and dentistry and NOW want their clones fed too in the school hols, as it is too much effort for them to get off facebook and tip out a bowl of cereal.
Well said – I don’t put in food boxes as exactly as you say these folk are supported by us already – they need to stop and think what do they need first mobile phones fags game consoles booze etc etc…. nah put the food in the boxes for the animals !!!
Zoos are like a prison.. But for innocent beings….
I been in Amazon World in the past.. years back.. I seen how for example enclosed big cat in there been frustrated.. Pacing from corner to corner of her small enclosed space..
I realised zoos keep these animals mostly for profit.. Most animals are not happy there.. Sanctuaries rescue animals not zoos.. I seen both I seen the difference….
Agree some animals seem distressed and always leave me feeling pity, not joy visiting zoos, so I don’t anymore Last one I saw which was the best ever was in Spain, in Europe’s only desert, where almost all creatures had massive spaces and running water, but still not the same I know as being free. Yet almost all creatures were seemingly content.
We can all live without having to see something shut in a cage now, with HD tv etc, and tbh, like ourselves, if we were locked up for our entire lives in a small cage, we would likely rather be ‘dead’, and we have many forms of stumuli, they don’t and with their keen instincts, a moon lit night wishing so desperately to escape, must be hell for some of them.
Whilst such places justify their existence by saying they are saving species, saving for ‘WHAT’ exactly?
Akin to the Victorians shooting birds and animals and putting them in a glass case, but at least they were then quickly out of their torment when people gawped at them. So to save something to then give it deep mental torture until it eventually dies, is not nice to see and maybe better if they didn’t ‘breed’ rare species as it may be better not to be born at all.