By Karol Suarez and Hira Humayun | CNN
The previous head of a zoo in Mexico‘s Guerrero state has been accused of getting some animals killed for meat, amongst different incidents.
The Guerrero Atmosphere Division’s Director of Wildlife Fernando Ruiz stated in a information convention on Tuesday that information of Zoochilpan Zoo in Chilpancingo misrepresented its variety of pygmy goats final summer time, and accused former director José Rubén Nava Noriega of getting some cooked — a declare that Nava denied.
There have been “5 females and 5 males of which the previous director had 4 male specimens to be used on the New Yr’s Eve dinner,” Ruiz alleged.
“That's to say, these 4 specimens had been sacrificed and cooked within the services of the identical zoo and had been used as meals within the year-end celebration.”
He added that the well being of those that ate the meal would have been put in danger as a result of the animals had been “not appropriate for human consumption.”
In a press release, the Atmosphere Division additionally detailed different administrative inconsistencies on the zoo. It stated that in a separate incident, Nava traded 4 cattle in change for supplies, instruments and provides for the park, however that it was not knowledgeable concerning the supply of the cattle in accordance with protocol, and people supplies and instruments weren't discovered on the zoo’s premises.
Nava rejected all of the accusations as false throughout a press convention on Wednesday, claiming there's a “soiled battle” for management of the zoo’s finances.
He additionally stated that each one the actions carried out in the course of the time he was accountable for the zoo had been lawful.