Safari Ravenna, animals in captivity for business
Italy, june 2013
This project, curated by Essere Animali and supported by the declarations of ethologists, biologists and psychologists of undisputed competence, was carried out in the spring of 2013 in the zoo inaugurated about a year previously in the vicinity of the Mirabilandia amusement park. The birth of this safari and zoo, in which more than 450 wild and exotic animals are currently confined, was preceded by years of battles by numerous animal-rights associations that tried to prevent it. Today, however, a visit to Safari Ravenna shows the entire commercial side of this structure: animals on display among rows of cars, completely immersed in a context that is certainly not suited to them and condemned, for a monotonous eternity with no stimuli, to that meaningless life reserved for them in zoos. Read more