El Paso zoo educates over an estimated 350‚000 people a year many of them being students on school field trips. The Zoo offers many activity’s for volunteer work‚ and holds educational programs and tours including sleepovers‚ and a behind the scene tour on how and where the animals kept afterhours. If that’s not enough you can also get involved with the zoo by being a volunteer working with zoo keepers‚ interacting with public visitors and helping in special events held at the zoo‚ you can also donate
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Zoos are like internment camps and should be shut down. Animals deserve the right to live out their lives in their natural habitat‚ not be the source of human entertainment. Zoos are more detrimental to animals than they are good for them‚ even though there are conservation efforts and educational purposes for having animals in captivity. The negative aspects far outweigh any positive effects when it comes to having animals in captivity due to poor living conditions‚ failure to educate‚ and psychological
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Composition II May 15‚ 2013 Zoos should be Banned. Approximately 175 million people visit a zoo each year. That’s half of America’s population. Zoos are a huge tourist attraction because they allow families to spend a day out in the sun‚ looking at animals‚ and eating overpriced junk food. But what most people don’t know is that zoos are far more sinister than selling $5.00 bottles of water. Statistics show that in all zoos fifteen percent of animals die every year in captivity. Zoos are an unsuitable environment
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Zoos have played a great part in our society since the very beginning. As our society began expanding it caused great amounts of deforestation and habitat destruction. Over the centuries this process has become more violent than ever before. According to Alina Bradford a live science contributor mentions that we are permanently destructing forest of an estimated 18 million acres per year according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. Bradford claims how deforestation has rapidly
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Period. 2 Should Wild Animals Be Pets At Home? Many people have questioned whether they would ever consider to buy a wildlife animal as a pet. Although owning a wildlife animal would seem out of this world‚ it’s not worth risking the lives of these poor animals who are meant to be out in the wild. Wildlife animals are not as domesticated as dogs. They have wildlife instincts even when they are in captivity; this is very dangerous for us humans who would own one of these exotic animals. By owning a wildlife
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species has been insufficient. Species decline is directly correlated to human causes‚ whether in agriculture causing loss of habitat‚ or by the greenhouse effect causing global warming. When a habitat becomes deconstructed‚ the organisms‚ plants‚ and animals that once occupied the area have to reduce their carrying capacity‚ making extinction more probable. Human activities have drastically changed natural greenhouses over the past centuries. This includes burning fossil fuels such as coal or oil which
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Jaklin Masoudi CADV 350 Prof David Wakefield Case Study Assignment I went to the LA Zoo with my nieces Jasmine and Jessica last week. They are 6 and 4 years old and it was a very interesting trip for them and we saw many children who came and visited the zoo. We saw different animals in the zoo and I explained for them: This is an elephant. They are very big animals and have a long memory‚ and a very long nose called a trunk. They make trumpet sound Or This is the lion. It is the king of
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that a good thing? Keeping animals captive might not be in our best interest. Caging theses animals up for zoo can be compared to imprisonment for animals. It makes profits for zoos and aquariums while these wild animals suffer. They take away from these animals being free‚ just so they can entertain humans. Lastly it takes away these the freedom of animals‚ preventing them from being truly what they are‚ and that is wild animals. So these animals shouldn’t be captive to zoos and aquariums. First
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your letter about zoos which are out-of-date and where the animal keepers treat the animals cruel. I think the article talked about only the zoos’ bad side which is very sad but I’m sure that we can find a lot of zoos which shows us the opposite. In my opinion the zoos can be educational because they keep exotic animals which most of us couldn’t see in their natural environment in Asia or Africa. To visit a good zoo is our only opportunity to get to know some wonderful animal like elephants‚ lions
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The Deception of Wild Animals Throughout life‚ it may be examined that amongst varied species of organisms‚ there will always be a few who are singled out due to varied differences. For example‚ there was a study about how lizards that adopted the same hues as their environment survived against their predatory species‚ whereas lizards of vivid colors were ultimately‚ depleted from their environment. This process is more commonly known as natural selection. However‚ one might wonder if the same
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