@usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months agoZoos aren’t for animals. They’re for us. | Zoos say they’re leaders in protecting wildlife. But is it true?www.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down119cross-posted to: environment@beehaw.org
arrow-up1149arrow-down1external-linkZoos aren’t for animals. They’re for us. | Zoos say they’re leaders in protecting wildlife. But is it true?www.vox.com@usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square73fedilinkcross-posted to: environment@beehaw.org
minus-square@usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilink1•edit-29 months agoYet zoos also kill perfectly healthy creatures, however, because they are seen as “surplus” So it’s not like they are being just held there while they are healing and then released once they are healed https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26356099
minus-square@x4740N@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoThis comment seems more like an inflammatory responses based on the wording used It doesn’t seem like a logical response at all
minus-squareSeraphlinkfedilink0•9 months agoThis is bizarre. Why do European zoos refuse to use contraception as population control rather than… Well I hope that giraffe was the exception. Odd but I think the US zoos are slightly more ethical on this one.
minus-square@usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilink-2•9 months agoIf you look further at the article you’ll find it’s hardly an exception: but executive director Dr Lesley Dickie estimates that somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 animals are “management-euthanised” in European zoos in any given year.
Yet zoos also kill perfectly healthy creatures, however, because they are seen as “surplus”
So it’s not like they are being just held there while they are healing and then released once they are healed
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26356099
This comment seems more like an inflammatory responses based on the wording used
It doesn’t seem like a logical response at all
This is bizarre. Why do European zoos refuse to use contraception as population control rather than… Well I hope that giraffe was the exception.
Odd but I think the US zoos are slightly more ethical on this one.
If you look further at the article you’ll find it’s hardly an exception: