Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too
x00z@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoZoos are NOT in it to “support the animals”. If they were they would keep people away from the animals.
I did some in-depth research on a Zoo near me because I was looking for fraud by one of their board members because their name was found in the Panama papers. I found that they get ALL the money they need to support the animals and staff from the government, and it gets put in a nice non-profit which they happily told people on their website. But the Zoo had a second for-profit company, which was the company that made profit from all the people and children visiting.
So no, fuck Zoos. They are only in it to make money.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
The Zoo near me is actually completely supported by the community. They have several acres of land and have build impressive exhibits and done work to help save endangered species via breading. They also employ quite the staff and get volunteers of all ages. It is actually pretty impressive given that they are very careful about where there funding comes from.
Some Zoos are corrupt but not all of them.