While they face ethical challenges and must continually strive to improve their practices, zoos also offer invaluable opportunities for education, conservation, and recreation. By balancing the needs of animals, visitors, and the broader environmental landscape, zoos can continue to play a vital role ...
Compounding this already bad situation is the fact that the majority of roadside zoo operators conduct their businesses on shoestring budgets, so they don’t have the funds required to provide acceptable conditions for the animals or improve them over time. SUBSTANDARD HOUSING, CARE & ANIMAL WELFARE...
To address these critical issues, a zoo must not only promote higher operational and ethical standards and animal welfare but also be certain that the stakeholders perceive the importance of its mission. This will benefit the individual institution and zoological institutions as a whole as a ...
It was in the 1950s that zoo animal welfare began to take centre stage as zoos (particularly those in Europe and North America) were pressured by the general public to improve captive conditions for the animal’s experience [34]. Such a shift came in the wake of increased accessibility to...
However, this claim must in part be attributable to the fact they defined immersion in water as an indicator of enhanced welfare. They also claimed that even in habitats in which tigers did not use pools, that the “presence of a water pool with clean water encourages tigers to perform ...