Some people think
that zoos are cruel and all the zoos should be closed. However,other people
think that zoos are useful to protect the rare animals. Discuss both views and
give your own opinion.
Zoological parks have always invited wrath of detractors as
they terms these places as illegal and impractical, however, certain naturalists find these locations quite
practical. Both partisan groups cite their reasons in support of their views.
Zoos, as per proponents, provide a safe refuge to conserving near extinct
species, in the times when illegal hunting and poaching are at their peak –
that has cause disappearance of some of the rarest animals from the face of the planet. These places
despite confining wild beings into cages and enclosures, they help keep the
poor beings safe and instead run breeding programs that help bolster dwindling populations
of endangered wild life.
Moreover, zoological parks do not only offer a healthy entertainment
to the people but also act as a potential source of informing them, especially
children - the future citizens, about the critical importance of animals and
birds in maintaining the ecological balance of the planet. The subtle
message passed along with amazing experiences helps enlighten people about the
diversity of life on the Earth, and inspire them to involve in protecting the
natural habitats and contain illegal hunting.
Nevertheless, critics will be critics: they always tend to rouse
the most sensitive emotions of humans by terming these locations as illegal confinements,
which many resent. Zoos all over the world subject animals and birds to an
unwarranted torture by locking them up in small enclosures: distorting their natural
life cycles. Even the nutrition rendered is unlike what these beings would afford
in their natural habitats: cumulatively these factors adversely affect mental
and physical well-being.
In a nutshell, controversies and derision apart, zoos have a
great functionality in the current times, when planet is being denuded and wild
beings being killed. Hence, all the criticism should be side-lined and zoos
must be promoted.