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Do Roadside Zoos Aid Conservation? PETA Has the Answer | PETA

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Many roadside zoos get rid of “surplus” animals by selling, dumping, or killing them. Here’s what to know about these animal prisons’ conservation cons.

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I choose this because it gives good basic facts about zoos.

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Some Interesting Zoo Facts - Zoos & Aquariums of America

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It has been estimated by WAZA that over 600 million people visit zoos each year. This is almost certainly an understatement It is estimated (by us) that there are more than 2,800 zoos & aquariums in the world. Germany (1.2.2003) has 414 registered zoos and the most in any single country.

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This video gives good points. It gives information on how zoos are good but are also bad.

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Should zoos be banned? (C2D Albatross+ Lesson10)

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I chose this article because it gives points on how zoos and aquariums are good. It gives good facts and studies.

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Featured Image Credit: Daily Venture
By Emily Persico

Whether you like it or not, there are zoos and aquariums everywhere. You've probably been to at least one in your lifetime, a tourist in the vast, managed habitats of species from around the world. Yet zoos and aquariums are so much more than a tourist destination, and there was once a time when they were so much less.

Let's start with the good. Zoos and aquariums are hubs for education, research and conservation. Moreover, they are genuinely great places to live. The American Humane Conservation has designed a third-party certification program to ensure this, promising the wellbeing of all captive animals under their certification roof. The standards they set are rigorous, and they have resulted in captive animals living empirically longer, healthier and richer lives than animals in the wild.

Don't worry... it gets better. On top of providing a cozy habitat for animals in captivity, zoos and aquariums actively improve conditions for wild animals. In what scientists have termed the "Sixth Extinction," humans have transformed this world into a place where many animals (two-thirds to be approximate) could go extinct within ten years without human intervention. Alas, it is up to zoos and aquariums to intervene.

Intervene they have. Together, zoos and aquariums over 100 million each year for field conservation. They have also saved countless species from imminent decimation, including the red wolf, the Louisiana pine snake, the Arabian Oryx and the black-footed ferret. All of these valued creatures were rescued through highly organized, cross-institutional breeding programs. Many others have been saved too, either directly or through the influence of education and research.

Aquariums haven't always had the shiniest reputation, but they've certainly done a 180º. An ethical evolution has evolved our zoos and aquariums to what they are today: Centers of rehabilitation, scientific learning and conservation.

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Whether You Like It Or Not... Zoos & Aquariums Are Good

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Featured Image Credit: Daily Venture By Emily Persico Whether you like it or not, there are zoos and aquariums everywhere. You've probably been to at least one in your lifetime, a tourist in the vast, managed habitats of species from around the world.

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Five facts why zoos are good. This article gives good facts on zoos.

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Unlimited entry to Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary (daily capacity restrictions apply)

Kids join free on adult memberships

Free entry to five interstate zoos

Discounts at the Zoo Shop and from our zoo partners

Help fund our conservation work to fight wildlife extinction

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Unlimited entry to Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary (daily capacity restrictions apply) Kids join free on adult memberships Free entry to five interstate zoos Discounts at the Zoo Shop and from our zoo partners Help fund our conservation work to fight wildlife extinction

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Zoos are good. They are not prisons and the zoos are not held in captivity.

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Zoos Are Not Prisons. They Improve the Lives of Animals.

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After the death of Harambe the gorilla at the Cinicinnati Zoo, do not forget the work zoos do to keep endangered and extinct animals alive.

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Watch from the start to 1:30 and then from 21 minutes to the end. He interviews the manager and goes behind the scene

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Gives information on how zoos are good and cons of zoos. This video is clear and is gives good facts.

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They look like they are unable to move. I chose this picture because they look like they are in jail.

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The tigers are trapped in this little section. They are forced to say in these confined spaces and entertain people.

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The sea life is forced to be trained and put on a show for people. This picture shows that these animals have to fo things.

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I chose this article because it explains how zoos are bad for animals. It also gives the zoos that were bad.

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Roadside zoos are businesses that capitalize on breeding, buying, and selling sentient beings. Their main priority is profit, not the well-being of sensitive, feeling animals. How do we know?

1. Pymatuning Deer Park left a dead animal to rot inside a deer enclosure.

Authorities have cited Pymatuning for numerous violations including enclosures caked with food and feces buildup, failing to provide a young lion with enough light for a diurnal light cycle and for failing to provide animals with adequate veterinary care.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture cited the facility seven times for not providing adequate veterinary care and for refusing veterinary recommendations for this animal before finally euthanizing him.

Other than begging tourists for food scraps, essentially the only thing that these bears can do to pass the time is pace back and forth and walk in endless circles.

In nature, giraffes aren't completely weaned until they're at least 1 year old, and mothers and their calves often stay together for their entire lives. However, April was separated from all her calves when they were between the ages of a few weeks old to a year and a half. Even worse, Animal Adventure Park livestreamed the births as a ridiculous moneymaking scheme.

Once the cubs are too big for public encounters, they're sent elsewhere or confined to cramped cages in which most pace incessantly.

Bears who have been under the watch of workers at Oswald's Bear Ranch have been shot to death, been trapped in a collapsed den, suffered a "drug overdose," and suddenly died from unknown or undisclosed causes, and half a dozen more have been slaughtered. Oswald's told a state inspector in 2017 that a "mean" bear should be "made into jerky."

Ben suffered from severe lesions on his eyes, nose, and mouth. The damage left his corneas permanently scarred, and his vision is likely impaired. PETA rescued Ben from Tregembo Animal Park. He now lives at a beautiful sanctuary where he can finally climb, dig, run, and hibernate.

For years, big cats, bears, and other animals trapped at Waccatee Zoological Farm have been witnessed pacing and baboons have been seen swaying and rolling their heads. A macaque and a capuchin have been seen frantically biting and attacking themselves-all signs of extreme psychological distress.

These bears have no escape from their cramped, hot concrete-floored cage, and their inadequate water trough is typically empty.

10. Zootastic Park "euthanizes" rabbits by hitting them with hammers.

This roadside zoo also puts the public's health at risk-for example, a calf who was being treated for highly contagious ringworm was not separated from visitors by an adequate barrier, and a monkey used for public encounters had not been tested for tuberculosis. In addition, during an encounter, a tourist was bit by a tiger cub.
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These are only a few of the many examples of ways in which roadside zoos have failed the animals they claim to care for. Such facilities are still a nightmare for animals-but victory by victory, we will dismantle this cruel industry.

Using PETA's form below, please speak out against disgraceful roadside zoos today:

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10 of the Many Reasons Why Roadside Zoos Are Bad for Animals | PETA

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Roadside zoos are businesses that capitalize on breeding, buying, and selling sentient beings. Their main priority is profit, not the well-being of sensitive, feeling animals. How do we know? Authorities have cited Pymatuning for numerous violations including enclosures caked with food and feces buildup, failing to provide a young lion with enough light for a diurnal light cycle and for failing to provide animals with adequate veterinary care.

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I chose this website because they provide percentages and good facts. Also why they should not live in zoos.

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Here are ten facts about zoos that you need to know...

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Good facts on Aquariums and Marine Parks

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Good facts on Aquariums and Marine Parks

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This article provides facts on Marine Parks and more on aquariums. The dolphins are contained

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Aquariums and marine mammal theme parks like SeaWorld, the Miami Seaquarium, and Canada's Marineland are part of a billion-dollar industry built on the suffering of intelligent social beings who are denied everything that's natural and important to them.

Wild orcas and other dolphins live in large, complex social groups and swim vast distances every day in the open ocean. In captivity, they can only swim in endless circles inside tanks that, to them, are the equivalent of bathtubs and they're denied the opportunity to engage in almost any natural behavior. They are forced to perform meaningless tricks and are often torn away from family members when they're shuffled between parks. Many die far short of their species' natural life expectancy.

Families Torn Apart

Countless marine animals (even the original Shamu) were taken from their rightful ocean homes and placed in tanks. Tilikum, the orca who lashed out and killed SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau and two other people, died in a concrete prison 33 years after he was taken away from his Icelandic family. Lolita, torn away from her family when she was just a baby, has spent half a century in the same tank at the Miami Seaquarium. Some countries continue to capture wild dolphins and whales.

Captivity's Tragic Consequences

Frequently housed with incompatible tankmates, dolphins, whales, and other marine mammals are often drugged in order to manage stress-induced aggressive behavior and relieve the endless monotony of swimming in circles. They break their teeth chewing on the metal bars and concrete sides of their tanks and are forced to perform tricks for tourists in exchange for food-all in the name of entertainment.

While wild female orcas can live to be more than 100 years old, orcas at SeaWorld often die by the time they reach their teens and rarely approach even the average life expectancy of wild orcas. More than 40 orcas have died at SeaWorld from causes such as bacterial infections and fractured skulls. More than 300 other dolphins and whales along with approximately 400 pinnipeds have also died at the parks.

While Marineland can no longer breed whales and dolphins or confine new ones-thanks to Canada's recent ban on their captivity-it's still imprisoning the animals currently languishing there. Dozens of dolphins, whales, and walruses have died there-including a walrus named Apollo who recently suffered a heart attack. An orca named Kiska-who was abducted from her family in the ocean as a baby 40 years ago-is confined in isolation and can do nothing but swim in endless circles inside her cramped tank.

The Trouble With 'Interactive' Programs

Touch tanks as well as "swim with dolphins" and "paint with dolphins" programs allow the public to pet, kiss, paint with, or even ride these animals. Such programs invade their already diminished worlds and are intrusive, stressful, and even dangerous for them, as well as being risky for human participants.

Animals in "petting pools" are frequently exposed to foreign bacteria and other pathogens, and they can become anxious, frustrated, aggressive, and even neurotic as a result of being confined to shallow tanks and exposed to constant interaction with humans. Members of the public have been injured at SeaWorld's dolphin-petting pools.

Even programs that enable people to swim with dolphins in nature can be invasive. Boats and swimmers may chase, harass, and scare them, interfering with their natural feeding, resting, migrating, and playing behavior.

Poor Government Regulations

Captive marine mammals have some federal protections in the U.S., but enforcement is lax. There are simply too many animal exhibitors for the limited number of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors-as of February 2020, there were 104 inspectors for 12,851 facilities. Even when exhibitors are cited for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act, they're rarely assessed fines or meaningful penalties.

Keeping Dolphins Free

In nature, orcas work cooperatively in search of food. They share complex relationships in a matrilineal society and-in some populations-rarely leave their mother's pod. They have group-specific food preferences and behavior. These attributes, along with their pods' unique dialects, are considered a form of culture that is unrivaled by any species other than humans.

Other dolphins, too, maintain dynamic relationships within a large social network. They live with up to a few dozen others in a pod and can swim as many as 60 miles each day and dive to depths of nearly 1,500 feet in nature.

The world is moving away from keeping intelligent, sensitive cetaceans in captivity. In the U.S., the National Aquarium is building the dolphins in its care a seaside sanctuary-a safe ocean cove in which captive marine mammals can be released into a protected area of the sea to dive deep, feel the ocean currents, and finally live like they should, all while still receiving care, food, and veterinary support. Two whales have been moved from a marine park in China to a seaside sanctuary in Iceland, and The Whale Sanctuary Project just announced plans for a seaside sanctuary for rescued orcas and belugas in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Governments around the world are also recognizing that dolphins (including orcas) and other cetaceans do not belong in tanks. Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, and Croatia have all banned the practice of keeping cetaceans in captivity. In 2013, India's Ministry of Environment & Forests banned the practice of keeping dolphins captive for public entertainment. Other countries, including Brazil, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, and Norway, have highly restrictive standards that make it nearly impossible to keep cetaceans in captivity. The last dolphinarium in the U.K. closed more than 20 years ago.

What You Can Do

Please don't visit marine parks, and never buy tickets to roadside zoos or aquariums that keep ocean animals in captivity. Encourage your local aquarium to create more space for rehabilitating (and releasing) injured wildlife by refusing to breed more animals.

You can also leaflet at local roadside aquariums or marine parks, pressure officials to avoid subsidizing these facilities with taxpayer money, write letters to the editor of local publications, and support legislation that prohibits the capture or restricts the display of marine mammals.
Please join PETA in urging SeaWorld and other marine parks to stop using animals and to relocate the orcas, bottlenose dolphins, and other animals to seaside sanctuaries, where they can thrive in the enrichment and diversity of the sea while still receiving the care that they require.

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Aquariums and Marine Parks are no safe havens for marine mammals like dolphins and whales. Learn more on how you can help animals and not support these facilities.

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These little fish are in one tank with a shark. The shark could eat the fish and they might have rare fish in the tank.

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They are contained in one section. It also doesn't look like they have a lot of water. When do the animals get fed, and what do they give them?