My reply to naive article Tigers don't belong in zoos
"Born Free" wildlife people are the biggest enemies of the endangered species of this planet, for the push for impractical solutions based on fantasy notions of a wild animal's basic needs that condemn many wild animals to eventual extinction.
They imbue wild animals with a preeminent spiritual needs,so grand they assume they are basic needs without proof sans logic or reason.
Predators do NOT roam to enjoy the splendor of nature,
Animals in general do NOT roam just to have new experiences like breathe the fresh air of new places.
Animals roam to find adequate food firstly.
Animals roam for safety and security reasons.
3rdly they roam to find a mate when it's time.
Satisfy those 3 primary urges in a nicely appointed but admittedly limited living space (I DO NOT MEAN a 4 walls cage) and you will suddenly find yourself with an animal that does NOT, WILL NOT leave, and if you force it to leave - IT finds it's way back. So much for the vaunted yearning for freedom, or the notion animals rather not be among us.
Conflicts with big predators stem NOT from a lack of living space, but their clear documented preference for the food, shelter and safety living near or among us provides.
Our problem is we keep foolishly thinking "wild animals don't want to be among us." Yes they do.
The solution should be rather than cutting them off from us find ways to incorporate them as safely and neatly into our own world.
For the world of man has incorporated the world of nature and vice versa, or at least Nature is trying, and she'd have succeed if it weren't for the self-proclaimed wildlife advocates who fight her tooth and nail by insisting nature wants things she clearly has little interest in.
A quick look at Google Earth should show even the most unaware how pointless it is to push for "wild spaces" for lions tigers Etc. It's impossible to find a place on this planet big enough for a wild population of Tigers.
Any such spot good for a tiger is/was prime land for us, and we long ago moved in.
Even Siberia is under HEAVY exploitation pressure.
We may not live there in large #s, but there are few places there free of our presence.
"Born Free" are guilty of the worst kind of anthropomorphism we humans practice.
If resources were put to creating WELL-MANAGED, compact wild-life parks say a cross between the typical miserable wildlife ranch and a zoo, few animals would be in danger.
This IS THE SOLUTION. IT WILL WORK. I have over 5billion examples of just how right I am, or potentially right I am, we humans.
The idiocy behind the assumption that large predators have such a great need for "freedom" that it exceeds our own is disproven by our own choise to "settle in communities." Prior to this, we humans were quite the wanderers. We covered the globe before we built our first cities
Yet as soon as we learned how to grow food in one spot, and create a safe single room shelter - guess what we overwhelmingly decided NOT to roam anymore.
Not only that, members of 2 species who were known "must be free to roam" types eagerly joined us, cats and dogs.
How so many are so blind to the fact that the things that make us so content in our world, do the same for wild animals provided they are adopted to their form.
The ease at which we in overwhelming #s are happy to stay in our own well-provisioned home as long as we had access to various entertainment via computer and TV for MONTHS ON END. LOL is a great indicator of what the reactions of animals would be given the same circumstance.
In India cities are over-run by monkeys, not from lack of space, but their preference for our lifestyle, which they steal , because NO effort is made to sensibly incorporate them.
Just how dangerous this philosophy is that says animals yearn for freedom and choice to wild animal preservation can be seen in the case of the now Extinct Chinese River Dolphin.
I blame the extinction of the wild Chinese river dolphin squarely and solely on the so-called, self-proclaimed wildlife advocates. To save the dolphin they made cleaning up the entire Yangtze and limiting shipping in China's major transport artery their impossible goal.
They rejected transporting survivors to select lakes in China or elsewhere to create safe havens for them.
Such demands were never going to be met, and the Chinese River Dolphin went extinct waiting for them to "succeed" in their high minded fantasy quest.
Proof of how wrong they were/are can be found in the survival of the Chinese River propose.
The porpose survivors were transported to a lake, where they are adapting to. They survived thanks to pragmatic common sense solutions. The dolphin was a clear victim of the pretensions of a few who seek impossible solutions based on fanciful notions of what animals truly need to be happy.
The premise for all solutions should be "If that makes so many humans happy, you can bet it would make them happy to."
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