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Zoos aren’t for animals. They’re for us. | Zoos say they’re leaders in protecting wildlife. But is it true? (www.vox.com)
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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I've read about a few conservation programs where zoos had a central role in aiding with the resources and the reproduction and building of numbers of animals to reintroduce in the wild.

But besides that, it has been close to a decade I've been to a zoo and I don't miss it.

At a point in my life I wanted to get a degree in biology to work at a zoo. Nowadays, I think the best "zoo" is 500 square kilometres of land, with the closest human settlement 50km away.