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PROPRIETAIRE D' UN PARC ANIMALIER IL SE BAT AFIN DE TOUS LES FERMER  ET REMETTRE LES ANIMAUX DANS LA NATURE!!!

Damian Aspinall wants his own industry phased out over the next 20-30 years, saying it was wrong to keep sentient creatures as lifelong “prisoners without parole”.

He said: “We’ve played God once when we took animals out of the forest for zoos, so surely we can play God again and try to get some of these animals home.”

Some 80 per cent of zoo animals are not in any sense endangered, he argued, adding they were either hybrid creatures with no conservation value, or on the contraceptive pill to stop them breeding and thereby pushing up costs.

Mr Aspinall, 53, said the millions of pounds spent on new enclosures could be better used breeding endangered species for a return to the wild.

It is a policy he has successfully followed at his Port Lympne and Howletts wild animal parks in Kent where he says “animals come first”.

A decision to rent out nearby land to two music festivals at Port Lympne, as reported in the Sunday Express last year, was a “mistake”, he added.

The Aspinall Foundation, founded by his late father John, the famous casino tycoon and close friend of Lord Lucan, has just returned nine gorillas to the jungle in The Gabon, a moment he described as “beautiful”.

“They just walked into the forest and started exploring,” he said.

“If you’re a true conservationist and you truly believe in nature, the ultimate goal is you don’t need zoos.

“They always throw education back at you though, but that’s total and utter nonsense.

“In the next 20-30 years, it would be a lovely goal to see zoos phased out or if they’re not, to see them truly doing what I believe is true conservation work.

“What I mean by that is that they only keep truly endangered animals.

“Zoos are stuck in a trap because they need to get the public in because otherwise they will go bust.