Bonn - Nix da money boon to animal rights! Frank Asbeck is sour. So angry that the millionaire head of SolarWorld has abruptly changed his legacy.
German animal rights activists have criticized his plans for a lion enclosure at the Rheinaue so massive that Asbeck now pulled the emergency brake.
Frank Asbeck is a portable giving man: He saves August Macke images for Bonn's museums, he cares about solar power for an AIDS orphanage in Malawi, supported a hospital project in the Congo.
Animal welfare should also benefit from the assets of the times "Sun King". By: "I have my last message last Monday," said Asbeck for EXPRESS. He betray the total which is now the animal rights through your fingers? Resounding "no"!
Build crux lion enclosure: This does Frank Asbeck in addition to his new headquarters in a 50,000-square-meter land in the Rheinaue.
A "lion's Ark" there will be - that for young animals, which must otherwise be killed in zoos often.
Asbeck: "The German Animal Protection Association is aware that the overpopulation can result in zoos to ensure that juveniles must be killed." Irritates the Enterprise "is so much ignorance" on the part of animal rights.
That is now mobilizing against his ark do, but was just "gimmicky advertising new members," said Frank Asbeck.
In an action at the weekend in the city of the Animal Welfare Association had collected signatures against the proposed lion enclosure, criticized that "animal welfare considerations would play no role here."
That brings Frank Asbeck in a rage: "The project is backed by scientific analysis. We stand with several zoos in Germany in touch. But while the city of Bonn me at least, sounds, animal rights activists want to blow up the fence already, before it is even built. Those are "unhatched lion."
Then, the SolarWorld CEO sarcastically: "Maybe I swing it around, yes. And in the lion enclosure and ground squirrels are colored yellow mangalica. "
