Many people wonder if endangered species should be kept in captivity. I found an article that relates to this topic. It is called "Should Zoos Keep Endangered Species?" by Doris Lin. Doris Lin is an animal rights expert an has many wonderful article about these topics.
Oppose Keeping Endangered Species in Zoos
Individual animals have sentience and have rights, but a species as a whole does not have sentience and no rights. Keeping animals in a zoo takes away their freedom the their ability to live a happy life. The main question is: Is it more important to save the species or for the individual to live a fulfilling life. Also, removing breeding individuals from the wild population further endanger the wild population of that particular animal.
Zoo Breeding Programs
Many zoo breeding programs do not excuse the ability of the rights of the animals to be free. The individual animals are suffering in captivity for the good of the species which all together in an entity that does not suffer or have rights. Zoos produce baby animals that bring in visitors, but leads to excess animals. These animals will never get released into the wild and therefore never rebuild the wild population. In 2008 an endangered Asian elephant named Ned was confiscated form a circus trainer after being sold to him from Busch Gardens Zoo. No matter if the animals is endangered or not people will continue to hurt the wild population.
Lin, Doris. "Should Zoos Keep Endangered Species?" About.com News & Issues. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2016.
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