Zoos Invest Little Time in Animal Care
Zoos vary in size and quality—from drive-through parks to small roadside menageries with concrete slabs and iron bars to city-run facilities. Millions of people visit zoos annually, but most zoos operate at a loss and must find ways to cut costs or add gimmicks that will attract visitors. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2003 that “nearly half of the country’s zoos are facing cutbacks this year … [a]ttendance, meanwhile, is down about 3 percent nationwide.” Precious funds that should be used to provide more humane conditions for animals are often squandered on improvements aimed at attracting visitors—such as landscaping, carousels, refreshment stands, and gift shops.
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If people don't come to the zoo, then the zoo can't afford to keep the animals or have proper care. If they infest in making people come FIRST then using the revenue from that to help the environment of each individual in the long run.
Short term of this is not as good nor is it in anyway bad as they are not cutting funds for the animals, but in the long term this is the better by far.
PeTA can be annoying, but I understand wanting to protect animals and doing so with fervent effort. I do not understand how one is expecting children and adults to understand animals other than through Zoos and what they offer. Do they expect Discover Channel and Animal Plant to go out and make a bunch of documentaries to make people feel connected to animals? It's on the screen. There's hardly anyway to connect to something you just see on the screen like you can if you see them face to face.
Not everyone is well off that they can go on a safari. The safari, so to speak, is brought to them by their own city's zoo. Why is that so terrible for them to see animals they'd probably never get a chance to if it were not for zoos ?
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This means only that we should fund zoos better.
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