Persuasive Essay On Zoos

Think back to your first time at the zoo with you family, you got to see all the birds, the tigers, the lions, the bears. It was a nice memory, but what if that zoo never existed? And those awesome lions you got to see? They went extinct because no habitats were built to repopulate. That’s what groups like PETA are proposing, they believe that animals will all survive if they are left in their natural habitats. Although there are many groups like PETA, the evidence just doesn’t point in their direction. For instance, zoos and parks have helped countless species come back from near extinction, they are places of education and scientific research and education to the public, and they spend millions to increase the size of the habitats for the animals. These reasons show more than enough evidence that zoos and parks help the animals and do not hurt them.

The black-footed ferret, California condors, and the famous red wolves just to name a few. These animals were kept in medium-sized habitats, well fed, and reproduced enough that they could be released back into the wild. Now, many argue that animals placed back into the wild suffer from issues with their survival instincts. They claim that after being fed for so long, it is difficult for the animals to revert back to their basic survival instincts and “survival of the fittest” way of the wild, but what they don’t realize is that these animals are always closely observed for years after being put back into their natural habitats, they don’t just leave the animals for dead after being returned, that would eliminate the entire point of trying to build the species up from