Persuasive Essay On Zoos

Of the 24 species, the most popular of recent years is the Northern Jaguar Project which aspires to restore habitats suitable for jaguars and other threatened and endangered species, to support wildlife research and educational programs, and to reduce conflicts between carnivores and humans. In 2013, EPZ gained two new jaguars through the program in connection with AZA. This is significant because the male jaguar Zean is half wild. To preserve his wild DNA Zean was put into captivity to protect his genes and perpetuate them for his offsprings and in 2017, with the help of his girlfriend Inka, successfully produced two new cubs that contain the wild and rare genes.

Should animals be in zoos? Is it true when people say “seeing a bald eagle in a zoo a symbol of american pride in a captivity”? The public is speculating on whether zoos are fit for wild animals. Well in my opinion, sometimes it's best for the animal to be in a zoo. The animal could be near extinction and it would need the proper care. If animals were protected in zoos, the benefits would be, the animal would get the care it needs, it would be protected from extinction, and it would be breeded within the zoo.

Zoos have always been criticized because some claim that animals are being abused and mistreated due to the lack and care of certain zoos. However, zoos actually help many animals with research and are critically important for conservation purposes. People need to understand that zoos have programs that breed endangered animals as well as rescue programs for exotic animals that people are no longer able to support. Also, they have many hands on activities that allow people to get more connected to animals. In addition, zoos do not only focus on animals. They focus on environmental problems/concerns as well. Zoos help us stay educated about environmental impacts and animal care.

Since their very beginnings, zoo’s around the world have been at the forefront of ethical debates. Animal ethicists, animal liberationists and proponents of the land ethic raise considerable questions about the nature of zoos in a moral and ethical context. Drawing on animal rights claims, the questionable moral status of animals and the land ethic, this essay seeks to argue that zoo’s; a place in which wild animal’s are held in captivity, are inherently unethical. Though animal liberationists tend to include domesticated animals and agriculturally farmed animals, the scope of this essay will focus solely on the ethics of zoo’s and those animals within. Citing experts in the animal ethics

Zoos may seem fun to visit and exciting to see the animals; but what you don’t see is the suffering and depression that lies in these helpless creatures. There are many arguments whether or not zoos are good or bad, and if they should be removed or kept. Several think that zoos should be abolished or at least very much improved, due to animal cruelty. While, others want zoos to stay because it is beneficial for the animals and people. I strongly believe that zoos aren’t good for both the public and animals for numerous reasons.

The first modern zoo to be founded was in Vienna, Madrid and Paris in the eighteenth century and later on in London and Berlin in the nineteenth century. The first zoo to be established in America was in Philadelphia and Cincinnati in the 1870s. In today’s America there are thousands of zoos. Humans like to be entertained regardless of how they are being entertained, whether that is walking through the park, watching a show, listening to music or simply going to the zoo. There are truth behind zoos that many don’t see, for example, many zoos don’t show the death rates that many zoo animals have after being transported from their natural habitants or the experiences that the zoo keepers provide to the animals being kept in captivity. To what extent are we okay with animals being tortured or being aware that animals are being killed just so humans can be entertained? While there are benefits to keeping animals in captivity, scholars agree that there are more negative effects that are damaging to the animals. The purpose of zoos can be more than just keeping animals in captivity and creating significant health or mental problems, zoos also can have a positive outcome, zoos can help keep endangered animals safe from others who are trying to kill them for what they are worth. Jamieson explains and gives one example of when people started putting animals in captivity. The Romans is the example that Jamieson uses, the Romans “kept animals in order to have living fodder for games.” Jamieson continued to explain how over the years the use of animals historically grew in popularity and how the idea continued to “thrive until at least the eight century.” Jamieson also mentioned that keeping a large amount of animals showed who had power.

In an animal lover’s world , killing an animal is a crime. Animals are innocent .In her article “The Truth about Farm Animals” , former farmer Heather Rose explains, “Animals around the U.S are mistreated every day and we don’t even know about it. They are kept in small cages often with so little space that they can't even turn around or lie down comfortably” (Reno NV). People express that our do these things since, people have rights and animals don't. At the point when people say things like that, it makes me so furious, what has this world come to when we say that animals don't have rights. Is it since they can't talk? Or, on the other hand is it since they are not human and we should regard them as we would a cloth doll. We shouldn't treat animals along these lines regardless, there are better approaches to get the meat at that point by killing it at 5-7 weeks old (chicken) or six months(pigs). I believe that killing animals is pure evil , I mean it's despicable , Animals have lives

Earlier this year, there was a bill introduced to congress to ban wild and exotic animals and prohibit them from traveling in circuses. Why should circuses have the right to manipulate or torture these living creatures? While there are arguable defenses in using animals for entertainment, those defenses do not include the pain that those living creatures experience in exchange for creating human entertainment and happiness. For example, these animals are taken away from their natural habitat, they travel long hours, and are put in cages for most of their lives. According to Bentham, “He claimed that each persons’ happiness or pleasure was of equal value, and should be weighted equally when determining how you should act.”

For thousands of years wolves have roamed the lands all around the world. From rich mythology and forgotten lessons, scientists have found evidence of wolves in almost every culture. Driven and hunted to near extinction conservation efforts have uncovered these long-forgotten teachings once again. Researchers are reminded of important family dynamics and the many parallels found in humans. Wolves were on the endangered list because they were hunted until almost extinction. Settlers farming of the land and the value of furs drove the hunt to eradicate one of nature’s top-level predators. Over the last few centuries biologists, ecologists, and scientists have been studying the effect this eradication has had on natures ecology. By observing the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park scientists are uncovering new information on the real impact of top predators like the wolves. While the fight for survival of their species continues conservationists are fighting to find common ground to live and coexist with these formidable predators. Despite the legalization of massive slaughter of thousands of these majestic animals for sport, children of the next generation are already educating themselves and advocating for conservation. The hope is that these education and conservation efforts will allow humans and wolves to co-exist.

Most zoos still keep animals in enclosures, but these enclosures do not let the animals live the way they would if they were in their natural environment. I think that no matter how much trees or branches you put into the enclosure, how nice the background painting is, it doesn't compare with the natural habitat of the animal. The zoo animals have to spend days, weeks, and years in the same enclosure that makes their lives very tedious. For example elephants in the wild are used to traveling many miles in herds these are very social creatures. But when put in zoos they are kept in

According to AZA more than 195 million visitors explore zoos, aquariums, and circuses annually, but do the visitors really understand the conditions associated with the three attractions? Families around the globe love their pets and would do anything for them to have a excellent life. Yet families allow exotic wild animals to be put in small-scale cramped enclosures, forced to be seen by thousands of visitors each day. Zoos, aquariums, and circuses have a reputation as being excellent research and learning centers. However, the conditions of zoos, circuses, and aquariums are actually harmful to the animals they contain.

Imagine being captive for life. In a cage locked up when your so innocent. Zoos have become a controversial issue in our society, and from what I am thinking, I feel that it’s not right to keep the animals in zoos. So do we have the rights to do that? Generally every body has been to a zoo at least once in their life, I'm sure you can remember when you were a kid adoring animals behind glass. But you were missing the point the big picture.

What would our world be like if animals were not walking the streets, begging for food, attacking people and other pets, starving to death, and even causing jail time for humans? The amount of animals we have on our planet is massive. Since 2011, the number of dogs and cats entering shelters annually has declined from approximately 7.2 million. It is about a twenty to one ratio of pets to humans, and that’s not including the wild animals we have illegally being kept here in people’s backyards. From the number of animals on the streets and in shelters, hoarding cases and abuse, animal cruelty, laws on animals, dog fights, neglect, to people doing jail time due to their pets, there’s an abundant amount of issues our country has with the furry creatures and nothing being done about it. This issue is a hot topic in our own town hall meetings and neighborhood meetings with citizens. Placing a pet limit on every household in the United States should be a must in today’s society, due to people not being able to juggle their pets, home life, work life, money issues, and family life.

Some families go vacations, some play every sport there is, some buy their kids whatever they want some, but not my family, we show, we earn what we are given. For some showing is just something you do in the summer for a 4-H or FFA project but to me it’s much more than that. To me that’s what I work all year for. That slap on the back for that Purple ribbon, the adrenaline rush from stepping out on that fresh sawdust, the intensity from driving that animal, and that amazing feeling that washes over your whole body when the judging shakes your hand and all those long nights and early mornings finally paying off. But even beyond that there is more learned in the experiences that come from showing an animal's, than how to set the animal to look its best and get a little sweaty.

As I walk into the Homeward Animal Shelter for my dog walking shift, I think of the reason I began my weekly volunteering. I want to give love, in any way I can, to the animals who have been left by the ones they love. These animals that I spend an hour and a half with every Sunday need to know that someone loves them. That they have not been forgotten about and that it gets better. After spending the summer with my Aunt Renae and Uncle Chris and watching their newest rescue dog open up to be after three years, I learned that. For a dog that was abandoned by his family and left on the street, bounced between the shelter and temporary homes, he has finally found permanent love in our family.