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Melani – Remembering a beautiful gentle soul by Sybelle Foxcroft, Director of Conservation & Environmental Education 4 Life (CEE4Life)
Melani was a majestic Sumatran tiger, born in captivity. From birth she was under-weight, poorly fed and neglected. Then one day the Surabaya Zoo keepers began feeding her and the other tigers meat contaminated with formaldehyde. Though the others died agonising deaths she survived against all odds. Then she was shifted to Taman Safari. Here she clung to life for some time. But the poison had reached her organs and froze them. She passed away, a pathetic emaciated shadow of her former majestic demeanour. Sybelle was by her side to tell her we are all sorry for what humanity had done to her. The cruelty. The humiliation. Her message was her courage, bravery, endurance, patience and her great love that engulfed all those she met – Editor
