Destitute Zoo: Animals are priced**, and national treasures are only available for one price, whether precious or not.
Many years ago, a Saudi friend told me that the lions raised in the Middle East were brought back from Africa, and they were cheaper than one. In fact, I didn't care about his boasting at first, until we were riding in Tshwane in Johannesburg, South Africa, and he suddenly asked, "What kind of animal do you want?"What are you talking about?”
I replied in a kind of Chinese manner: "We'll see." ”
Formerly known as Pretoria, Tshwane is one of South Africa's three capital cities and is actually an administrative capital covering an area of 600 square kilometres with a population of nearly three million and is located just 60 kilometres from Johannesburg.
The best tourist attraction in Tshwane, which is predominantly white and safe, is the most popular university in Africa, the University of South Africa, the University of Pretoria, the College of Engineering, etc., are the best universities in Africa.
This is particularly evident that Tshwane is a fast-growing European city.
In 1855, in order to separate the black people of South Africa, where it later became the capital of the Transvaal Republic, the Boers established the country. Although South Africa has long claimed to "eliminate discrimination", the situation in Tshwane has always been terrible, basically "white bosses, black people are working". As a result, Tshwane does not have the bustling scene of Africa, which is full of flowers and streets, and is known as the famous "Garden City" of Africa.
There are very few blacks in Tshwane (most of them work indoors), and most of the residents who come to Tshwane are whites, Arabs, Asians, and most of them do not come for tourism, but to visit the Pretoria Zoo, which is home to 3,500 species of African creatures, totaling more than 500,000 individuals.
Originally a private garden for the Boers, the Pretoria Zoo was bought by the South African authorities and became a national park in 1916 and opened to the public. Half of the zoo's 85 acres are nestled on a suburban mountainside and cats such as birds, apes, sheep, horses, lions and tigers.
If you don't want to walk on foot, you can rent an electric car, take a ropeway from the top of the mountain to the top of the mountain, or buy a ticket for an aquarium or reptile museum.
The Pretoria Zoo is home to eight of the largest zoos in the world, making it the most valued animal conservation facility in the world. Since its establishment in 1975, the Centre has received many awards for its outstanding performance in the fields of animal protection, scientific research and reproduction, including the European Animal Protection Organization and the International Society for Animal Protection.
The open area is only 085 square kilometers, and tens of kilometers away, is a 750 square kilometers of research and breeding ground, which is even larger than the entire city of Tshwane, and according to the introduction, the total number of animals here is more than half a million, most of which are concentrated here. In other words, the zoo will charge the institute in the name of tourists, and then raise some animals that have both pets and medical purposes, and then sell them for a good profit.
Pets that come out of the breeding base will be brought to the zoo's booth, sorted according to different categories of ** and teenagers, and then used a table for customers to choose. This is followed by a field trip, a physical check-up, and leaving the park until the customer's home.
All the Middle Eastern breeds of cats mentioned by Saudi friends were bought from this zoo, and judging from the descriptions of the clerks and taxi drivers, the store can sell 150 to 200 orders a year, almost once every two days.
In fact, Pretoria Zoo is not what it used to be, since 2010, there have been a lot of incidents about animal treatment and long-term incurable events, and now it is no longer an animal conservation park, but a commercial center that feeds animals for a living.
According to incomplete data from European National Public Radio (NPR) and DailyNews, there have been more than 3,000 lions, 5,000 tigers, 20,000 rhinos, and hundreds of African elephants in the last 30 years, totaling more than 50,000 of these wild animals. Customers come from all corners of the globe, from pet shops to pet brokers, private collectors, farmers, biolabs, circuses, and hides.
The only ones that didn't make it to the purchase list were zoos, because zoos thought the animals they kept were too gentle and could be easily eliminated by the environment and climate. In fact, in the past, zoos in Europe, America, Japan, South Korea and other countries have been to Pretoria Park to buy, for example, the Japanese spent a lot of money to buy two this year, but three months later, they died of illness at Yokohama Zoo;A zoo in Seoul, South Korea, once kept two tiger cubs, but neither of them lived for less than a year.
Because the sales of cats are very poor, it is necessary to change the "main product" to another one.
The African two-horned black rhinoceros is the most popular "staple" product lately, and because it takes a long time for ivory to grow, this new type of black rhinoceros can mature in five to eight years, and is worth as much as ivory, selling for $3,000 a pound and $15,000 to $30,000 when shipped to Asia. Just this large area of hornless rhinos knows how much money you can make each year.
The Pretoria Zoo has also been nicknamed "the poorest zoo in the world" by various environmental groups for this reason, because it is so "poor" that if you can afford it, you can even get South Africa's precious animals (five precious animals in South Africa: lions, buffaloes, jaguars, African elephants, and a black and white rhinoceros).
In this place, there is no after-sales service, there is no customer return visit, everything is public, such as a lion, 20,000 South African rand, a tiger, 40,000 rand, a catty 45,000 rand, a whole, can be sold for 700 to 800,000 rand. If you can't afford it, you can also put the animals or some samples that died in the memorial area.