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Explorers, or colonizers +searching for exploitable goods, like spices, people, weapons, or rare +animals. In the original conception, zoos were in no sense a +conservationist or educational institution. Rather, they were a tool +for profit and entertainment of the aristocracy. As those colonial +justifications became less just, ``conservation and animal welfare'' +became the new explanations (Source B). There is limited educational +value and rarely any meaningful conservation being done by zoos despite + their owners' noble intentions, so they shouldn't be perpetrated for +the sake of the animals but for entertainment value---meaning that +conservation should continue in the wild and zoos should focus on +entertainment value without harming the animals. + +Captive species' educational value is often tied to their +conservational value. Zookeepers believe that if an animal is visible +to the public, the public will believe in keeping that animal alive. +According to PETA and Zoocheck Canada, viewers' attention is +characterized by ``wandering the grounds,'' spending less than eight +seconds on minor exhibits and no more than two minutes even on major +ones (elephants), on average. So the purported awareness value is +limited if any. The conservational value is similarly overestimated +unless zoos are talking about ``writing a check,'' which a Houston Zoo +director claims isn't in the spirit that zoo directors claim +(Source C). + +It's clear that directors and staff like Barongi care about the animals, +and that they want to preserve animals' welfare inside and out of zoos, +but flaws inherent to the institution---its focus on entertainment value +(being financially motivated by increased viewership) and internal +rather than external conservation efforts---mean that these wishes can't +be realized. In certain cases, like organizations which only take in +injured animals and avoid further breeding (because, according to Source +A, captive-bred species are rarely released back into the wild), +allowing visitors is completely reasonable but is better treated as a +side effect than a sole purpose. The Seoul Zoo's case of releasing a +captured bottlenose dolphin into the wild is exceptional, Source B +saying ``interest surrounding the release was unprecedented.'' If +release of captive-bred animals (not just return of originally wild +animals) were the norm to bolster wildlife populations, zoos would be a +much more moral institution. But this is not the case. + +According to Source A, the animals are mentally damaged by captivity, +developing ``neurotic and self-harming behavior,'' which is unfortunate. +But not all animals suffer from these outcomes, and in many cases, the +income brought in by visitors---if used towards conservation efforts +in the wild---is worth the harm. The direction that zoos are attempting +to move in, towards ``pushing [patrons] to donate to the cause,'' +following the AZA recommendation to spend a notable part of their +budgets on field conservation. These trials are valuable to actual +conservation but don't go far enough. Zoos can't just be pushing +messages about conservation to patrons if those patrons aren't paying +attention; zoos could, for example, exhibit the change they've made in +the wild instead of a live exhibit or embrace more closely the +entertainment role they've taken on by limiting the number of species +they hold in captivity and especially creatures like the polar bear +or elephant which fare much worse in captivity (Source A). + +Zoo directors have good will for the animals they claim to serve, but +the current financial, cultural, and logistic state of zoos doesn't +realize the majority of their goals. Animals would fare better if zoos +focused less on captive animals in the way zoos do now and more on +actual wildlife---to take advantage of the popularity of zoos and +aquariums for the benefit of the animals. + +\bye |