Captive Breeding Essay

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TOPIC: Captive Breeding Can Save Species By Summer Denize Captive breeding is the practice of animals being contained and bred in an environment that humans can police and order to specific conditions1.in order to release them back into the wild and ultimately increase the population. Among common captive breeding programs, there are zoos, where the public can increase their knowledge and understanding of many endangered species, there are also wildlife game farms, where wild animals are bred in a larger enclosure than in zoos, but are not open to the public in many cases. In addition there are other places such as botanical gardens, and aquariums, where species of fish and plants are bred and conserved. Many endangered (and non-endangered) animals are bred in captivity to help the conservation of their species. Zoos can be used to channel the public eye onto the increasing problems of extinctions of animals, and the entrance fee money that the public pays to them can be put towards building better enclosures for the animals in the zoo. Also, endangered animals that are bred in zoos can be integrated and released into the wild to increase the wild population of those species. However captive breeding can reduce the genetic diversity, as the gene pool is smaller, which may result in less individuals that are able to breed due to a reduction in the fertility. If the genetic diversity gets too low, then it can be irreversible. Also, by zoos drawing the public attention, this can divert people from seeing the real cause of the problem of the endangered species, which may be such as their habitat being destroyed, or an increase of predators in their environments. People even may begin to believe that the war against the extinction of many of the animals in zoos is won. So more money would be used to upkeep zoos, and less would go towards changing the root

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