Why did they have to go to a zoo? (From Worcester News)

..."If you care about animals don’t visit zoos and safari parks. Protection of wild animals’ natural habitat is the only real way of saving endangered species."...

Really? And there was me thinking that Gorillas, Tigers, Rhinos to name but a few were critically endangered because people hunted and killed them, and it had very little to do with the destruction of their natural habitat.

Shame on the zoos and safari parks for introducing well funded and properly managed breeding programmes to ensure the continuity of these species, albeit in a captive environment.

In a perfect world, wild animals would live in the wild, and not face any dangers whatsoever. Unfortunately, unless you've been living on the moon for the last few decades/centuries, you'd realise that this simply isn't the case, and sometimes people such as the people who work in zoos and safari parks have to step in to help endangered species.

Please don't tell people not to visit zoos and wildlife parks just because you're against them personally. They do a lot of good work.

Pauline, get your head out of the sand and look up Jersey Zoological Park on Wikipedia. Then tell us which benefits the world most. And that's just one example - plenty more like it. Fluffy kittens are not the whole picture, and frankly I could do without them cr*pping in my garden. Can't remember the last time I saw ring tailed lemur with its bum in my lavender bush though...