Holtsville Ecology Site Closes after PETA and Humane Long Island Campaign

After hearing from several whistleblowers about the horrendous conditions at the Holtsville Ecology Site, PETA and Humane Long Island worked to convince town officials to close this roadside zoo. PETA sent a mobile billboard, and Humane Long Island led on-the-ground efforts to protest the site and speak up in town meetings. Town officials finally made the compassionate choice to shut down the roadside zoo, in a unanimous vote. The campaign kicked off after the death of Honey the black bear, who died after years of untreated chronic urinary tract infections and extremely limited access to veterinary care. Whistleblowers also documented the suffering and deaths of dozens of other animals under the highway department’s oversight, including parakeets who froze to death in the cold, multiple escaped and unrecovered animals, and a goat who died after being left with an untreated abscess on his neck.