Why are zoos so important for animals?

Answer 1

Zoos provide shelter and breeding sanctuaries for animals that are endangered. Because of habitat destruction, especially in tropical environments, many animals are illegally hunted, destroyed or pushed to the point of extinction. Zoos help save animals so that they do not get killed in the wild. Zoos also create a wonderful learning environment for people of all ages to see exotic animals face to face and learn about their importance in the world.

Animals do not have rights. In any case, zoos, as we will see below, exist to protect endangered species and to help us understand and protect our animal cousins more successfully. One of the reasons animals are taken into captivity in zoos is because they are under threat if they stay in their natural habitat.

Zoos nowadays are not marketed as places of entertainment - they are places of education. Most modern zoos have their main emphasis on conservation and education - the reason that so many schools take children to zoos is to teach them about nature, the environment, endangered species, and conservation. Far from encouraging bad treatment of animals, zoos provide a direct experience of other species that will increase ecological awareness.

One of the main functions of zoos is to breed endangered animals in captivity. If natural or human factors have made a species' own habitat a threatening environment then human intervention can preserve that species where it would certainly go extinct if there were no intervention. There are certainly problems with trying to conserve endangered species in this way but it is right that we should at least try to conserve them. And as long as animals are treated well in zoos there is no reason why conservation, education, and cruelty-free entertainment should not all be combined in a zoo. There is also, of course, a valid role for breeding in different environments such as large nature.

Zoos have research programs that help expand our knowledge about animals, especially the endangered species. The information gained by these programs can help protect, and treat the species in the wild, as well as determine what affects if any climate change may have on the regions needed for the species to flourish. Many zoos also have breeding programs for all kinds of species, endangered or not, and learn even more about the species during the breeding, and rearing process. All this knowledge and information is shared with visitors, organizations, and other programs alike.

Zoos are very good for the animals and give the whole species a last chance. Conservation is one of the things that zoos do to help the animal species survive. This brings me to the five main reasons why we have zoos. They are conservation, reproduction, education, research and recreation. Conservation is breeding, rescuing, finding homes for, and preserving threatened or endangered species.

Zoos help protect animals from predators. Animals kept in zoos would have once been in the wild where Survivial of the Fittest takes the lead.

Most zoos have large, life-like enclosures. Many zoos do not lock animals up in cages, which are mostly called safaris, and they really do help the animals. The animals live in a natural place and it is a lot like the wild, because they are free. A lot of them have large areas that animals can play in and a lot is done to ensure the animals are happy. The animals' enclosures are made to be similar to the animals' natural habitats and care is taken to ensure natural wildlife is within most enclosures. In zoos that strive to do this, it is okay to not have animals in their natural environment.

I personally think zoos are very important.

Answer 2

Zoo's are good because they take in animals form the wild who have no mother to teach them how to care for themselves.

They also keep up excellent breeding programs for

species who are extinct in the wild.

Zoo's also contribute to the tourism in the area they are located in as they attract a large amount of tourists weekly.

They also take the runt of an animals litter and care for it as it would have been left to starve in the wild.

They also keep the animals safe in their enclosures as out in the natural habitat a large portion has been cut down by loggers or Mc Donlads for grazing cattle.

That is why zoos are important.

Answer 3

Zoos not only inform the public about animals and create an awareness/desire to keep these animals and conserve their habitats, but they also work to maintain biodiversity through breeding programs. Some also work on nurturing and raising animals, then releasing them back into their natural habitat to help the species grow if they are endangered. A lot can be learned about an animal by observing it in the zoo where it might be impossible or very difficult to find out as much about it in the wild because they are shy of humans, etc, though the best way to really study an animal would be ideally in its natural habitat. But just think... do you think they are good or bad??? will you ever go on a petition against or maybe for zoos? will you ever be a zoo keeper? will you ever own your own zoo? But the main thing is.... are you for or against? Decide yourself don't let any one else influence you, always have your own opinion at the ready!

by a teacher in reading England. Langtree school in woodcote.

Answer 4

Zoos are important for several reasons. They contribute to conservation, science and verterinary research. They provide an educational, rewarding experience for visitors. They also provide shelters for animals. To find out more on how why zoo's matter, I've attached a link to an article. To find out even more about this, please see the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Website: www.aza.org. http://www.aza.org/ConEd/Documents/Why_Zoos_Matter.pdf

Answer 5

so they will be taken care of properly and it will prevent some animals from extinction .

Answer 6

Because society can understand characteristics of animals that you don't find easily in the daily life also is entertaining to see rare animals in action

Answer 7

Because they give animals food and shelter while providing entertainment for children.