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    The document discusses the debate around whether zoos are necessary. While some argue that animals in zoos suffer in confined unnatural spaces, others believe zoos have prevented species extinction by providing a controlled environment for study and conservation. The author ultimately argues that animal reserves which provide a mix of freedom and medical care, like those that helped save the Oryx antelope, are a better solution than traditional zoos.

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    The document discusses the debate around whether zoos are necessary. While some argue that animals in zoos suffer in confined unnatural spaces, others believe zoos have prevented species extinction by providing a controlled environment for study and conservation. The author ultimately argues that animal reserves which provide a mix of freedom and medical care, like those that helped save the Oryx antelope, are a better solution than traditional zoos.

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    Essay: Are zoos really

    necessary?
    For years, not many people paid attention to the way zoos worked. Today, with
    globalization and the growth in popularity of animal rights groups, the focus
    has been set on them and the doubt about the continuity of zoos increased.
    Two major positions have been established about the topic, which will be
    presented in this essay for the reader to form his own opinion.
    On one hand, people who are against animals being held in confined spaces
    allege that by no means a zoo park located in a city can be remotely alike their
    natural habitat. There is no point of comparison, so no matter all the efforts the
    animal can never feel like home. Animals are accustomed to being in the wild,
    chasing others or simply eating grass under a tree, but none of them can feel
    comfortable inside a cage. As Brigid Brophy said in her article of 1965 The
    Rights of Animals, there is no way that a visitor can have any educational
    profit from a zoo, when animals are being held in such a different environment
    from their own.
    On the other hand, the scientific community disagrees with the above stated.
    They believe that without intervention many species would have become
    extinct, as zoos provide a controlled and safe environment. They also claim
    that having animals in captivity allows a proper environment for their study,
    which could not be possible in any other way. It is believed that if animals were
    in fact left in the wild, we would know very little about them, their needs and
    their risks.
    Summing up, I would like to present my own personal opinion about the
    subject. While I do believe to be true that animals in restricted spaces indeed
    suffer, I do also believe that the solution is not to leave them in the wild.
    Perhaps the best thing to consider are animal reserves, which give them an
    adequate mix between freedom and expert medical control. Just as an
    example, I present the case of the Oryx. It is an antelope, which was in danger
    of extinction because of the excessive hunting. Since 1982, the Abu Dhabi
    Environment Agency did a patient job taking care of the few Oryx remaining, by
    upbringing them in captivity and then releasing them again into the desert
    where they belong. Now that species, went from being at the verge of
    extinction to just a vulnerable species according to the IUCN (International
    Union for Conservation of Nature). To my mind that is the way to go, and not
    holding animals in zoos in big cities.

    Sebastin F.
    CPE 5th of April

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