• @Auli@lemmy.ca
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    817 days ago

    Zoos serve a purpose it lets the public see the animals. And yes that has a positive benefit. If people don’t see them they don’t care about them.

    • toomanypancakes
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      -517 days ago

      Good thing people care enough to be fine with holding them captive so people can gawk at them then.

      • AwesomeLowlander
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        1817 days ago

        Zoos are the reason many species survive today. Conservation, breeding, and awareness programs and the such have saved species of every type on every continent.

        • PastafARRian
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          -1416 days ago

          Or like, we could vote to preserve nature without needing to gawk at a piece of it?

          • AwesomeLowlander
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            1816 days ago

            We can. Be honest, I estimate the odds of such a vote passing at roughly 0%. Most people just don’t care. To get them to care, you’d have to have an organisation handling awareness and outreach and… oh look, we’ve got a zoo.

          • @Klear@lemmy.world
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            516 days ago

            OK, please do that, then we can talk about shutting down zoos. When do you expect to be done with your little project?