The head of animal charity PETA has hit out at Disney after at least four alligators were killed by police searching for a young boy dragged to his death at the company's Florida resort.
Officers hunting for the two-year-old took reptiles from the water and euthanised them to see if there were any human remains inside.
The tot, named tonight as Lane Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska, was pulled away as he paddled on the shore of the five-star Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida.
Now the British-born head of PETA has criticised officials over the alligator deaths, saying the creatures were "doing only what came naturally to them".
Speaking to Mirror.co.uk, Ingrid Newkirk said:
"Disney, knowing that there were alligators in that water, should have installed warning signs because it's not news that alligators are natural predators."Yet now a child and four alligators, who were doing only what came naturally to them, have paid with their lives," she continued.
"The price of paving paradise and putting up a parking lot is that amusement parks, hotels, shopping malls, golf courses, and highways have shrunk the habitat that wildlife needs to survive."
Officers hunting for the two-year-old took reptiles from the water and euthanised them to see if there were any human remains inside.
The tot, named tonight as Lane Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska, was pulled away as he paddled on the shore of the five-star Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida.
Now the British-born head of PETA has criticised officials over the alligator deaths, saying the creatures were "doing only what came naturally to them".
Speaking to Mirror.co.uk, Ingrid Newkirk said:
"Disney, knowing that there were alligators in that water, should have installed warning signs because it's not news that alligators are natural predators."Yet now a child and four alligators, who were doing only what came naturally to them, have paid with their lives," she continued.
"The price of paving paradise and putting up a parking lot is that amusement parks, hotels, shopping malls, golf courses, and highways have shrunk the habitat that wildlife needs to survive."
