KIEV (Reuters) – Mykhailo Pinchuk takes a short walk around his empty zoo, welcoming some animals with a stroke and a morsel of food.
A white lioness roars in her enclosure, as a staff member looks on, at an empty private zoo called “12 Months” in the town of Demydiv, Ukraine May 8,2020 The personal zoo, which closed its doors to visitors during Ukraine’s unique coronavirus lockdown, has nearly lacked money and can hardly cover energy expenses to preserve conditions for its animals. Image taken May 8,2020 REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
No visitors have actually been allowed given that March, when the Ukrainian authorities enforced a national lockdown to include the spread of the unique coronavirus.
Pinchuk states the animals, born in captivity and used to the continuous existence of people, are lonesome. Some orang-utans even weep in their enc