Project Zoo: ACJC

© Tan Ming En

Many people think that keeping animals in zoos is a form of cruelty towards them. They lobby about how animals should be left untouched in their natural habitats and let nature run its course. In zoos they are kept in enclosures and their freedom is limited. Animals in zoos are treated like babies, with zookeepers pampering them. It is known that once an animal kept in an enclosure is released back into the wild, their chances of surviving are extremely low.

However, even though animals may belong in the wild, they are not necessarily safe there. While governments are doing their best to curb poaching and deforestation, it is impossible to stop it completely. Animals get killed or die due to their habitat being destroyed. It is thus better to keep them in enclosures, where they are relatively safer.

Many animals are endangered as well, and keeping some of these animals in zoos let us see these animals and possibly delay their extinction. Animals are an integral part of our environment, and more should be done to preserve them, or else, generations after us will only be able to see these animals throgh pictures and book, having no chance to see the animal live.

One of the more important ways to preserve wildlife is to preserve what mother nature has given us such as forests. These are the habitats of animals and clearing of such natural habitats are detrimental to them. Humans are not the only inhabitants of this earth and thus we should think of how to conserve wildlife as well.

Tan Ming En
Photographer