When you walk into a zoo, what do you see? Are the animals happy or do they slouch and turn their backs to you?
What I see are wild animals that should be free, trapped in little spaces surrounded by people who see them as entertainment.
Animals deserve more. They deserve more land and more freedom.
Instead of chopping down forests and taking animals out of their homes, we need to give them back their land and territory. They don’t deserve to be locked up for the rest of their lives.
If you say you are taking an animal out of a situation that was threatening to their species, that’s okay. But if you do it for the soul purpose of making profit, that’s not okay. Animals deserve to be with their own and not on display.
What I am trying to say is they don’t deserve this. They are not toys that you can play with. They are wild animals that should be roaming around their homes and sticking together with their kind to reproduce and provide for their families.
The importance of this idea is that we search for our humanity and give up this act of entertainment. Instead of paying to see dolphins do tricks and lions roar, we need to let them go home.
We shouldn’t lose focus on the natural flow of things. We should realize places like Seaworld are not beneficial to the sea life.
When the public sees children fall into containment or people fall into water that holds sea creatures, the end result is the taking of that animal’s life.
We can cause extinction, after all, we are responsible for the extinction of those in the past. We hold life itself in our hands and it’s easy for us to take it. We need to realize that these animals will not last forever and without them, we don’t last either.
If you don’t see the point of setting the animals free then see it in this point of view.
See it as if your life depended on it. See it in the sense of the beauty of the world is decaying. Overfishing over killing there is a point where these animals will run out.
What then will you eat, what then will you see in the water, in the sky? Nothing.
All because we didn’t want to take care of what we had. We became selfish with our own needs and wants that many of us destroyed the earth and the life in it. It’s been said before “This is why we can’t have nice things.”
One day we might wake up and hear no chirping, see no creatures, catch no fish.
With our own hands, we destroyed what was beautiful about the world: seeing life itself go on. To then see it stopped because we always thought someone else will do something. We then believe that someone else will save the animals. We expect others to clean up our own mess, until it’s too late.
Priscilla Vargas
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