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    This document discusses the debate around whether zoos help or hurt animals. It presents arguments on both sides of the issue. Zoos argue they save endangered species, while animal rights groups say keeping animals in captivity violates their rights. The document also notes that while zoos have improved conditions, animals are unable to thrive in enclosures and lack their natural habitats and behaviors. It concludes that preserving natural habitats without confining animals to zoos is a better way to protect species.

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    This document discusses the debate around whether zoos help or hurt animals. It presents arguments on both sides of the issue. Zoos argue they save endangered species, while animal rights groups say keeping animals in captivity violates their rights. The document also notes that while zoos have improved conditions, animals are unable to thrive in enclosures and lack their natural habitats and behaviors. It concludes that preserving natural habitats without confining animals to zoos is a better way to protect species.

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    This document discusses the debate around whether zoos help or hurt animals. It presents arguments on both sides of the issue. Zoos argue they save endangered species, while animal rights groups say keeping animals in captivity violates their rights. The document also notes that while zoos have improved conditions, animals are unable to thrive in enclosures and lack their natural habitats and behaviors. It concludes that preserving natural habitats without confining animals to zoos is a better way to protect species.

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    Banning Zoos

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    This document discusses the debate around whether zoos help or hurt animals. It presents arguments on both sides of the issue. Zoos argue they save endangered species, while animal rights groups say keeping animals in captivity violates their rights. The document also notes that while zoos have improved conditions, animals are unable to thrive in enclosures and lack their natural habitats and behaviors. It concludes that preserving natural habitats without confining animals to zoos is a better way to protect species.

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    The claim that animals have rights has been the subject of much debate since

    the 1970s. Are zoos helping or hurting our animals? Should zoos be banned? Do
    you agree or disagree?
    Zoos argue that they save endangered species, but animalists assert the
    violation of the rights of these captive animals is unjustifiable. The mistreatment
    of animals in the zoos has created controversies over this matter. To me, all
    animals should have the same basic rights as human beings, the most important
    of which is living freely in their own habitats.
    Proponents of zoos claim that these animal attractions have improved in the past
    years. Cages have mostly been replaced with moats and glass, and the majority
    now employ full-time vets to administer medication and restrict diets. Positive
    reinforcement is also the norm, and titillating animals is no longer an ethical way
    to get them to reproduce. Dart guns, too, are on the wane, after years of causing
    animals a great deal of stress. Another lauded justification for the keeping of wild
    animals in captivity is to ensure a secure population that could be used to return
    a species to the wild.
    Nevertheless, animals are unable to thrive in any type of enclosures, especially
    with unnatural weather and climates. Also, wild-animal parks and zoos almost
    always favour large and easily noticeable animals which draw large crowds of
    visitors, but they neglect less popular species that also need to be protected.
    Most animals in zoos are not endangered, and while confining animals to zoos
    keeps them alive, it does nothing to protect wild populations and their natural
    habitats. In addition, returning captive-bred animals to the wild is, in most cases,
    impossible because animals who are reared in zoos are denied the opportunity to
    learn survival skills, can transmit diseases to their wild counterparts, and often
    have no natural habitat left to return to because of human encroachment.
    Warehousing animals for life is not the way to save them from extinction and
    does not support their rights. Instead of patronizing zoos, individuals can help
    animals by supporting organisations that work to protect and preserve natural
    habitats, without creating animal prisons.

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