Articles on save wildlife?

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1. amomipais82
   

   Hi,
   
   
   I never much enjoyed the zoo. As a child, the prospect of a day's visit with my classmates sounded fun, but beyond the attraction of a day off from school, singing on the bus, and the cotton candy, the experience was usually pretty depressing. The place stunk like a huge cat box, and the animals appeared sulking, bored and disinterested. The people roughhoused, threw food and didn't seem to remotely appreciate these wonderful creatures and their place in nature. And what did we learn from polar bears that repeated the same back-and-forth motions all day long in their cramped cement pools, driven psychotic by their imprisonment so far away from their natural habitat and others of their own kind?
   
   The zoos of my memory are not unlike the freak shows of bygone days, metaphors for our aberrant relationship with nature. It was exploitation on both sides of the bars: the animals yanked from their worlds, without regard for the individual or whole species impact; and the people exploited, too, duped by the illusion that wildlife was flourishing when it was, in fact, disappearing quickly. ("How can they be endangered? I just saw a whole family of them at the Bronx Zoo.")
   
   But, as our timely cover story in this issue reports, some zoos have begun to re-think their roles. Many employ hard-working, concerned people, and are changing their priorities from entertainment to conservation--primarily by breeding endangered species with the hope of someday returning them to the wild. Ironically, though, the wild is no place for wildlife anymore. As long as we humans continue to lay claim to so much of the planet, while living under such economic ...
   
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