Campaign to remove Bengt Holst from his position at Copenhagen Zoo

12 February 2014

 - Bengt Holst is the so-called Scientific Director at Copenhagen Zoo, who ordered the public execution of a baby giraffe.

He should not in our opinion be in charge of a zoo and we the undersigned believe he should stand down or be removed from this post.

Three zoos, one in the UK, one in Sweden and one in The Netherlands, offered to take Marius the giraffe, a healthy, 18 month baby. The world is outraged that the zoo went ahead with its plans to kill the healthy animal.

Holst said Marius needed to be killed to protect the gene pool – yet the giraffe was offered many homes which would have done this.