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Lucía Oller Iglesias writes a response disagreeing with the idea that zoos improve animal welfare. She argues that zoos cause animals psychological trauma and stress due to small, unnatural enclosures that prevent normal social behaviors and exercise. Animals in zoos experience fear, boredom, depression and anxiety. Zoos prioritize entertainment and money over animal welfare, and diseases from unsanitary conditions can spread and kill animals without proper medical care. Animals have a right to freedom, not a life imprisoned in cages for human amusement.

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Lucía Oller Iglesias writes a response disagreeing with the idea that zoos improve animal welfare. She argues that zoos cause animals psychological trauma and stress due to small, unnatural enclosures that prevent normal social behaviors and exercise. Animals in zoos experience fear, boredom, depression and anxiety. Zoos prioritize entertainment and money over animal welfare, and diseases from unsanitary conditions can spread and kill animals without proper medical care. Animals have a right to freedom, not a life imprisoned in cages for human amusement.

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Lucía Oller Iglesias

The British College of Benalmádena


Centre Number: ES082
Response to Text - 0500 Coursework
Word Count: 663

Dear Editor of ‘The Children’s Nature Retreat Foundation’,

I am writing in response to your recent article "How Zoos Improve the Lives of

Animals" in which you clearly express the idea of zoos being a method of connecting

people with nature; facilitating and promoting animal conversation and combatting

against extinction. Ridiculous!

Modern society is completely ignorant about nature. It isn’t necessary for children to

spot animals in prison with the aim of obtaining an understanding of their visible

appearance. Despite the physical state of these creatures, emotions are still present

inside them. According to a recent study, zoo animals may experience more fear in

these centers than in their natural habitat, since they lack the ability to flee when they

feel under threat. Loud noises or unexpected movements from around could provoke

this fear.

Furthermore, researchers have also proved animals feel continually stressed because of

the limited space and the poor nutrition they receive, which causes them to feel sick and

suffer as a result. Moreover, boredom is commonly experienced by animals. As a

consequence, some may even develop depression or anxiety. Getting captured is a

traumatic event for any animal. Whether it was captured as an adult, or as a baby, it

definitely went through psychological trauma when caught and limited in a cage. In

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Lucía Oller Iglesias
The British College of Benalmádena
Centre Number: ES082
Response to Text - 0500 Coursework
Word Count: 663

actuality, criminals who are imprisoned are there for a reason. These are people who

have committed a crime. These include robberies, sexual assaults, murders and many

more. Still, people would not pay to observe them. So why would we pay to watch these

defenseless animals in a jail? Animals do not deserve to be treated in this way: they

have no guilt!

Besides, in your article, you have quoted, "Zoos offer animals a quality of life as high or

higher than in the wild." However, I doubt few people will agree with this statement as

zoos are essentially prisons where wild animals are usually being displayed in solitary

confinement with the main objective of satisfying visitors curiosity. Animals are being

forcefully removed from their natural habitats and then placed into unnatural and

controlled environments. This stops them from living real lives where they are able to

socialise and exercise in their day-to-day lives and stops the animal from functioning

normally.

Your article then goes on to say, “Many species are going extinct across the globe and

many more are facing the threat of extinction whilst modern zoos and aquariums help

combat these problems.” However, zoos and aquariums exist to provide entertainment

to visitors and generate money. Animal welfare and well-being are always of secondary

importance. When there is an excessive number of animals in a zoo, they are murdered

or sent to circuses and other zoos abroad. As well as when zoos don’t have enough

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Lucía Oller Iglesias
The British College of Benalmádena
Centre Number: ES082
Response to Text - 0500 Coursework
Word Count: 663

funding to provide well-trained people to care for them, diseases affect the animals.

Bacterial illnesses and numerous infections can be developed from the unhygienic

enclosures these guiltless creatures are locked up in. Without access to proper medical

care, animals remain at risk of dying from untreated diseases caused by their

surroundings. How is this still tolerated in our current society?

In addition, animals have the right to live freely. They do not deserve to live in small-

scale cages for their entire life. No one on earth could stand being in a cage every day of

their life whilst being viewed by human eyes as a consequence of interest. It’s senseless

how people feel the need of admiring animals from a close distance, despite the animals

suffer. Not to mention, in your article, you have carried on to say, “Many dreadful

things happen in the wild that aren’t present in zoos.” Nevertheless, they don’t get to

roam free or interact no longer. Their freedom is taken away from them at such a young

age, so youthful they never get to experience a true life as a regular wild animal would.

Let’s put a stop to this gruesome behaviour!

Yours faithfully,

Lucia Oller Iglesias.

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