For this week's blog post I wanted to talk about some alternatives than captivity. Many families still want to take their children to see animals and experience their magnificence. Other alternatives include sanctuaries and wildife perserves. As I was researching theses places I found an article by Doris Lin named "What is the Difference Between a Zoo and a Sanctuary?" She is a wild life expert and I also used another one of her articles for a previous blog post.
Zoos:
Zoos will buy, sell, trade, breed, and capture animals from the wild to make a profit. Many zoos are over populated in order to have a constant flow of baby animals in order to bring in more visitors. Excess animals are sold to other zoos, circuses, and even canned hunting. The animals in zoos are kept in small enclosures without room to roam. Many zoos spend their money on making the park look nice through landscaping and sculptures instead of focusing on the animals' needs.
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Sanctuaries/Wildlife Preserves:
Sanctuaries and wildlife preserves will never buy, sell, trade, breed, or capture animals from the wild. They obtain only animals that are unable to survive in the wild. This may include injured animals, confiscated illegal exotic pets, animals from zoos, breeders, circuses, and laboratories. Sanctuaries rescue the animals and try their best to provide a safe environment for the animals, so they can have a happy and healthy rest of their lives. Animals at a sanctuary or wildlife preserve have between 30 to 2,000 acres of open land that mimics their natural habitat to roam with built in dens and safe places to spend their days. They prohibit all animal performances and shows. The animals are able to run, play, forage, and show signs of natural instincts. They may also pick their own companions.
Happy animals with lots of room to roam
at Wild Animal Sanctuary
Lin, Doris. "What's the Difference Between a Zoo and a Sanctuary?" About.com News & Issues. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2016.
"Zoos vs Sanctuaries - In Defense of Animals." - In Defense of Animals. IDA International, n.d. Web. 13 May 2016.
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