How would you feel if you were hurt and people kindly recused you and nursed you back to health, but even after you recovered they forced you to stay? This is what is happening with wild animals all over the world. Zoos and aquariums capture injured animals then keep them to entertain tourists. I believe that places such as SeaWorld and The Wild Animal Park should not hold animals in captivity because animals are meant to be in the wild, where they live much longer, and can be happier in their natural environment.
I think that these tourist attractions should rescue the animals when they are hurt then let them go once they fully recover. “Wild animals in zoos suffer physically and mentally as their complex social, behavioral and physical needs cannot be met in unnatural manmade environments,” says the Captive Animal Protection Society. Another problem is that because most of the food is no longer alive, they get nowhere near the nutritional value living food would give the animals.
On the other hand, people might say that if you let the animals go they would die because they don’t know how to survive. Now I’m not saying that this is false, but a solution is to stop the breeding the adults and to teach them how to do vital things for living alone such as catching their own food. Another thing people might say is that they are being better cared for by humans than they would be in the wild. I disagree with this assumption because in the wild animals can roam free of barriers. Animals cannot be kept in small enclosures because they need so much more room than can be provided. Marine animals “are housed in small enclosures, unable to swim in a straight line for very long or dive deeply” awionline.org tells us.
Animals have a much better life in the wild than when they are in man-made enclosures. In zoos and aquariums all over the world animals are being held captive and being treated badly. They would be so much happier if they could be let free and live in their natural habitat. Some ways that you can stop these horrible actions are: Stop going to SeaWorld and the Zoo. Write a letter to someone such as an executive person at one of thee places. You could also tell your friends and family to take these steps with you. These animals could really use your help to change their lives.