As for space, a lion or a tiger in imprisonment is on average 18,000 times less space than in wild conditions; White bears are worse - a million times less. To say that this negatively affects the animal is to say nothing.
African elephants also live three times longer in the wild than captivity, and 40 percent of the lioners die in zoos, compared with 30 percent in the wild. This may sound as an insignificant indicator, but take into account that a third of the reasons why they die in the wild - the largest of which is predators is completely absent in zoos.
The argument in favor of zoos is their work to preserve species. But if you consider this issue in detail, it turns out that all this is more likely a myth.
Less than 1 percent of individuals in zoos are the result of programs for preserving animal species. They not only do not return animals to wild conditions - they actually take them from there, since 70 percent of elephants in Europe and 79 percent of the UK aquariums are taken from nature.


We are so focused on satisfying our basic needs, some ideas that we inherited many centuries ago that we cannot see how much harm we do. We must finally wake up, and as Costa Rica has already done, to begin the painful process of closing zoos.