Animals in captivity

Dear Editor,

I am writing in the hope that I can do something for animals’ lifestyle, specifically wildlife in zoos. The manner in which they live is the least effective; they’re caught in captivity for no reason but pleasure and entertainment. For example, the Tamatan Zoo’s tiger isn’t prepared for confinement even though tigers are a lonely species. Zoo management shouldn’t be able to take animals to subsist in this cruelty.

Nevertheless, some endangered species have been saved from smugglers, this could be the mainly reason why zoos are working nowadays. But, zoo’s animals are living in suffering, handling with diseases and abuse from their zookeepers. Also, it’s right to mention that animals die earlier; they don’t have sufficient space for living in and they may experience psychosis because of their confinement.

After all, there’s a well-thought plan done for solving this problem; natural reserves, which are protected areas, especially for preserving wildlife, such as animals, flora and geological features. In this way, people could care more about animals’ life and teach their kids to respect our animal friends.

Perla Berrones