Here's why Zoos are not Conservation Centers

Conservation centers differ significantly from zoos and aquariums.

To begin with, capturing, exploiting, and denying animals their natural habitats just for profit is neither right nor natural, yet that is exactly what zoos do, but they do a good job of covering it up, more so to people who aren’t aware of its downside, but unlike zoos, majority of conservation centers are credible to putting an animal’s well being first, so they don’t devote their resources to themselves, instead focus on providing the best spaces and nutrition for the animals.

Conservation centers, for instance, take in animals if they are threatened with extinction, are orphaned or have serious health problems, not to use for entertainment and profit. When researching this topic, it is stated that zoos such as the “San Diego Zoo” use their earnings on “staff salaries, animal maintenance and facilities costs” which are all obvious expenses, but very unnecessary if you ask me because it is in use for “maintaining a facility” that shouldn’t be there in the first place. For example, in 2014, they spent $11,564 on advertising. It would be better to use these funds for other purposes, such as to support conservation wildlife rehabilitation or ocean conservation, now I am just saying. Moving forward, one thing you may not be aware of is when an animal is considered “unwanted” by a zoo, most of those animals don’t go back to freedom, instead, they are either sold to "game" farms, where hunters pay to kill animals or are sold to smaller, more poorly run zoos, to make things worse, they are sometimes even sent to laboratories for testing. Surely you must agree with me, if you didn't already, that these businesses are no good to the world and to animals, the best way to describe them is immensely terrible, and you can do your part in supporting me by simply not visiting these types of facilities.

Now, if you’re interested in further exploring the topic, simply search up “why zoos are no good.” You will have so many other resources that will provide you with more information on what you should know.

There is no doubt that one of the biggest issues with zoos including aquariums is the welfare of animals, such as the high levels of stress, suffering, and loneliness, due to the deprivation of animal connections, just encountering the psychological toll of animal loneliness and neglect of life as people just walk by is heartbreaking itself.

To conclude this short article, what’s the solution? In my opinion, to simply shut down these types of facilities and instead replace animals with a 3D technology that can bring animals to a real-life animation for visitors, mainly speaking children. We've all heard this before, but in fact, we are rising with technology and it is the year 2022, so advancing this idea can be the beginning of many other benefits. In the end, what matters most and what is truly important is to simply allow animals to live on their own, to live their best lives just as we would ourselves, and to restore them to the wild, where they belong. This will avoid ever coming across an article or news that states “ up to 5,000 zoo animals are killed each year” or “numerous of animals were killed by zoos because they didn’t sufficiently contribute to their profits or fit into the facilities master plans.” Think of how wonderful that would be to never hear that again.