• 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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        -1417 days ago

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

        • AwesomeLowlander
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          1817 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?