After years of lawsuits, Cricket Hollow was finally shut down, giving its animal inmates a chance for new lives.
With the coronavirus pandemic spreading across the globe, we are living in a
moment of great fear and uncertainty. But, I am writing today with some
happy news: Born Free USA has rescued five monkeys from a roadside zoo and
is giving them a lifetime home at our primate sanctuary!
The beginning of these animals' lives was a horror story. Conditions facing
the animals at the Cricket Hollow Zoo in Iowa, a roadside zoo with a long
and troubling history of animal abuse, were truly deplorable...
The animals at Cricket Hollow faced these and other untold torments, but from this suffering comes salvation.
After years of lawsuits, Cricket Hollow was finally shut down, giving its
animal inmates a chance for new lives.
Working with the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), Born Free USA rescued two
rhesus macaques and three baboons from Cricket Hollow. The monkeys are now
at our primate sanctuary, receiving the comfort and care that they had been
denied for so long. You can help the monkeys by making a
donation through the
website!
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