Letter From Jenny Moxham as published on Western Daily Press
June 18, 2020
We need to conserve habitats, not zoos
Jennifer White was correct in saying zoo animals should not be in
captivity (Animal rights claims are wrong – zoos, 15/6).
The majority of zoo animals are not endangered species, but even if they
were, that does not give us humans the right to imprison them and deprive
them of their freedom and all semblance of a natural life.
If humans were an endangered species would we happily spend our lives in
cages, breeding, simply to ensure the continuation of our species? Of
course, we wouldn’t! We’d want to be free to go wherever we wanted and do
whatever we wanted, even if it meant the end of our species. And these
animals feel the same.
At the end of the day, if we conserve animals, without conserving their
habitat, we are only conserving them for our own selfish reasons for they
will have nowhere to go except zoos.
Jenny Moxham
Monbulk, Victoria
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