Conservation Of Wild Animals

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Wild animals, like human, also have a right to enjoy their lives in their own habitat. However, as human populations expand into wild animal habitats, natural wildlife territory is displaced (Wikipedia, 2015). Hence, the hourly destruction of an estimated 240 acres of natural habitat is directly attributable to the growth in human populations (African Conservancy, n.d.). Far from improving, the situation even got worse when the survival of wildlife species is increasingly threatened by a number of anthropogenic factors, including habitat loss and degradation, over-hunting and over-fishing, introduced diseases and parasites, attempts to eradicate "pest" species, and capture for the pet trade (The Humane Society of the United States, …show more content…

Zoo, which shorts for zoological park, is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred (Wikipedia, 2015). In history, the Vienna Zoo is the oldest existing zoo and was opened to the public in 1765 (National Day Calendar, n.d.).Up to now, according to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA), there are over 10,000 zoos exist worldwide (Fravel, 2013). Many people strongly believe in the idea of building zoos for the protection of endangered species. On the contrary, zoos, to people who deem highly of the rights of wild animals, is considered as incarceration. Our group also suppose that wild animals should not be kept in captivity because of many disadvantages they will definitely get: the agony from while trying to adapt to the artificial environment, the state of being used in entertainment or in experiments, and the dispossession of the right to belong to their natural …show more content…

As stated in Wikipedia, captive animals, especially those not domesticated, sometimes develop repetitive and purposeless motor behaviors called stereotypical behaviors. Examples of stereotypical behaviours include pacing around, biting themselves, retracing their steps, and excessive self-grooming. These behaviors are caused by stress and boredom. For more details, our group found that Rob Laidlaw wrote in his book “Wild Animals in Captivity” (2008), wild animals suffer psychological distress, often displayed by abnormal or self-destructive behaviour. Aquatic animals do not have enough water, birds are prevented from flying away by having their wings clipped and being kept in aviaries. As a result, because the zoo cannot provide the amount of space animals have in the wild, this leads to wild animals’ behavioural problems. For example, in the article “10 facts about zoos” (2010), a government-funded study of elephants in UK zoos found that 54% of the elephants showed stereotypies during the daytime. One elephant observed during day and night stereotyped for 61% of a 24-hour period. Lions in zoos spend 48% of their time pacing, a recognised sign of behavioural problems. A more terrified evidence is the one which Jennifer Viegas (2011) provided “the chimps would poke at their own eyes and other body parts, bang themselves against surfaces, pull out their hair, pace, drink urine, and

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