Point Counterpoint “ Keeping Animals in Zoos is Unethical” Necessary for life. It is becoming a common Free Them to culture of every state, to make a Saving Them big and huge zoo where Strengthen Gene Keeping animals in zoos is not animals are not given proper Pool unethical. It becomes unethical treatment. Zoos are ex situ conservation Most Inhuman when the animals are deprived Prafullit B Saxena sites but these are not definitely A Zoo is no longer a learning from proper facilities and are Sahibabad, Ghaziabad the abode for the animals. It is place—it is just like any other not maintained well. Sometimes seen that most of the animals in picnic spot or a hangout. You keeping an animal in zoo Free The Animals becomes necessary to save it the zoos are highly stressed due from extinction and the animal I totally agree with the fact that thrives there comfortably. keeping animals in zoo is Shayan Ghani unethical. Unlike human beings Patna, Bihar animals take birth in the natural environment and grow up in the lap of nature observing various For Entertainment & natural phenomena thereby Earning learning the rules of survival. If they are kept in a zoo, which is to many factors like go there, have your share of fun An emphatic NO. We do not feel only a slight of copy of their unavailability of adequate and leave behind the garbage. pity for slaughtering them when natural environment, probably amount of food, lack of proper Then you come home and talk we need proteins. We are not they will not show their natural space, lack of proper big on ways and means of kind to them while we play polo behavior. A Cheetah can run at maintenance etc. Most of the prevention of cruelty to animals. or some other adventure sports. a very fast speed but we can’t exotic species are either kept The moot question is why to eep We are not ashamed of killing see it doing so in a cell of 100 alone where as in some place the animals in Zoos at all? the defenceless animals for species population pressure is You want to study about making medicines from their sqft that is fenced all around. too much in a particular cage. It wildlife? Go and learn about it body parts. And we do have Lion is the king of forest, but his cannot be denied that in their natural habitat. These every right to kill them in the king-like behavior is not zookeepers are not well trained animals will show their natural name of religion. So, what is observable in a zoo. Basically, to handle all animals in very traits only in their natural unethical if we put them in zoos in a zoo the free movement of scientific manners. It is very true surroundings. If you keep them for doing some business? We animal is restricted, that a specific demographic and in the Zoo for study purposes, should rather be grateful to consequently they lose their climatic condition of a particular please keep in mind that your zoos at least on two counts: for natural behavior that makes area cannot be an ideal habitat observations will be totally giving us entertainment and them what they are. for most animals. Moreover, distorted. helping some families earn their A zoo is mere showcase overcrowding by visitors and You talk big about liberty. livelihood. of animals, which is like nature’s their unruly behaviour like Liberty is a two-way traffic. You Partha Sarkar beauty has been captured in teasing, mimicking etc makes need to respect the liberty of R.R & R Dept, Writers’ Buildings cages, just for amusement. One others, before you talk of Kolkata can see these helpless animals frightened. Each and enjoying your own liberty. creatures. However we cannot every animal should be free to Displacing animals from their No Proper interact with them and can never live its own life in its own natural natural habitat and keeping understand their social and habitat. This will make their them captivated in the Zoo is Treatment personal life. Preserving these gene pool stronger. most inhuman. This disturbs the Yes, keeping animals in zoos is animals is necessary but why in Dr. Biswajit Kumar Acharjee K V Dimapur, Nagaland order of Nature. You are doing unethical. These animals are a zoo? Why not in a sanctuary, no service either to wildlife or captured so that they can be which is probably closest to their to humanity by displacing them used to entertain the human home. Let’s break the Spacious from their roots. society. Zoos and other boundaries of the zoos and their Enclosures How can we have laws like botanical gardens usually fences, let’s free them from ‘Prevention of Cruelty to become picnic spots. Animals cages and give these incredible Zoo is a place where the fauna Animals’ on the one hand and are captured and kept in cages. creatures the best present that is conserved, protected and captivated animals in Zoos on These animals are being denied we can give – freedom. displayed for public knowledge. the other hand? their normal lives They are often Mritunjay Mishra According to the rules set up by Gaurav Sharma kept hungry so that they can Mechanical Engineering the government, the animals X-B, Bal Bharati Public School, make noise and attract people. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institue of and birds are to be kept in Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, New They are not given proper Technology spacious enclosures with the Delhi environment to live there own Surat conditions therein simulating 22 SCIENCE REPORTER, August 2010 Point Counterpoint their natural habitats. If the zoos Nothing Unethical! are set up according to these On the face of it, keeping conditions, keeping animals in animals in zoos may zoos is not unethical as they are sound unethical as animals protected from extinction. are deprived of their Parasar H. Lenka freedom and Dadar (East), Mumbai natural life [email protected] style. However, unpleasant as they snatch and application of conscience then, to think steal the freedom of these in confining the innocent Make Zoos realistically, creatures. For example, polar animals? How would it be, if Ethical there is nothing bears are given 30 feet of those who indulge in such unethical about walking space, whereas in the practices are kept in cages We all know that keeping it as long as animals are Arctic they could roam freely for likewise. Nature is ethically animals in zoos is unethical but provided with sufficient space hundreds of miles. It is not meant for the welfare of all very few people raise their voice and proper food. When killing justified to remove them from species and not for Humans against it. Zoos are becoming thousands of cows, pigs, their home and family. Zoos only. It also cannot be denied very popular in every part of chickens etc. to protect are just another word for today that the human race world. Many types of animals ourselves from epidemics is not animal prison. emerged from the animals are kept in zoos for displaying unethical, how can just keeping Kuldeep Singh, Etawah, U.P. through a continuous process to public. But zoos are not good of evolution. animals away from their habitat for animals. Animals in the zoo Animals in zoos are, in but with all possible facilities miss their natural habitat. Zoo: An Absurd fact, being prevented from become unethical? In fact, The only way of making naturally roaming, hunting, animal’s safety and health are Idea zoos ethical is to only keep mating and many more well assured in the zoo as most Zoo is a concrete jungle made endangered species in it for activities. Think how many of the zoos are staffed with to accommodate animals in sometime for breeding and after crimes are committed in our qualified professionals. The zoo cages where people visit these that they should be released human society when these brings animals closer to man animals to know about their into wildlife sanctuaries and activities are denied. One, and there is no better way to habitats. But isn’t it foolish to national parks. It is the therefore, can’t encroach on appreciate the charm of wild remove an animal from its necessity and need of time to other species’ rights. animals, as every one cannot natural habitat, put it in cages awake and put in efforts to Accordingly, keeping the become a wild life and then try to know about its maintain ecological balance. animals in zoos is extremely photographer and venture into habitat, its hunting and living Parth Mahajan unethical. Let them live forests. One more advantage habits. It is just like shifting an Nurpur naturally. of keeping animals in zoos Eskimo from his home to a Anil Kr De, Hooghly (W.B.) is that it helps to protect desert and then trying to know Freedom is some endangered species, about his fishing skills. Also, For their Own Important which otherwise would face the humans are not put in cages threat of extinction in their unless they commit a crime. But Good Of course, keeping animals in natural habitats. Considering the person who himself has It is wrong to think that keeping zoos is unethical. Freedom is these factors, I strongly feel done a crime by putting these animals in zoos is unethical. very important for all human there is nothing unethical in animals in the cages is roaming Sometimes for their own good, beings, then why animals are keeping animals in zoo freely outside, visiting these protection or for breeding of provided they are given due animals often.