Barbados Wildlife Reserve, Stopping Selling The Monkeys
The Barbados Wildlife Reserve is one of more popular tourist attractions on the Caribbean Island of Barbados and last weeks visit was my second time there. When you buy your ticket to the reserve you also get entry to Grenade Hall Forest & signal station, which my family and myself thoroughly enjoyed, you can real all about it by clicking on the following link A Fun Day Trip – To Grenade Hall Forest & Signal Station
The Wildlife reserve is a slightly misleading name for the place because it is really quite a small place, but never the less the kids will love it. The Barbados Wildlife Reserve is a tropical haven to a variety of exotic animals which most of are compatible and free to roam out with the reserve anytime they wish.
The animals you will see in the reserve which is located in a natural mahogany wood, will include the Barbados Green Monkeys, brocket dear, agouti, caiman, tortoises, iguanas and armadillo’s. You will also see a variety of birds including parrots, peacocks and brown pelicans. There is also a collection of snakes in a Serpentarium that are fortunately not allowed to roam freely.
A real treat for the kids is watching the monkeys getting fed, which we watched on our previous trip, so we didn’t bother to hang around to see it this time. The best time to see the monkeys’ being fed is supposedly around about 2pm. Just when we were walking over to Grenade Hall forest and Signal Station we witnessed all the monkeys walking through the car park heading to the reserve for there food, which was at around 2.30pm.
I must admit I kind of enjoyed my trip to The Barbados Wildlife Reserve until I started to read more into what they actually do at the centre. Unbelievable the owners of the reserve supports vivisection and they have a building only a few meters from the reserve, where they have hundreds of monkeys, which are bread in order to sell the young ones to pharmaceutical companies for research. What the owners really mean in there advertising about how great a place the reserve is, that some of the monkeys are free to roam, apart from the ones that are going to be brutally tortured in the name of beauty! I don’t know about you, but I’m living in the 21st century and I do not believe such things should be allowed to happen to the monkeys. I for one will never be returning to a place that supports vivisection and profits from it.
If you are not bothered about such things as poor wee monkeys being bread to be tortured in the name of beauty, your kids will enjoy spending a hour or so at the Barbados Wildlife Reserve, but don’t spoil there day by letting them read any of the press cuttings about the monkeys and the breeding program!
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hi, do bring in more information about Barbados.. at least allow me to learn more if i dont have the chance to visit. hopefully i can..
Hi… Thanks for sharing the information. Your blog is great!
[...] Barbados has many activities for the active and adventurous if relaxing by the beach is just not enough. Get in with the iguanas at the extensive Barbados Wildlife Reserve and enjoy a pleasant walk through the exotic bird sanctuary or along the many footpaths surrounded by forests of monkeys. Harrison’s Cave, in St. Thomas province, is a very popular subterranean attraction and likely to be a bit crowded during the high season. If you’re still not tired, take a trip to Welchman Hall Gully where stretches of walking path are surrounded by think wooded forest and hundreds of wild exotic species. You read about the Wandering Scotsman’s viewpoint on the Barbados Wildlife Reserve right here, Barbados Wildlife Reserve, Stopping Selling The Monkeys. [...]