“Captivity” Only Way For Animals

Animals are slowly restricted to their areas and eventually being extinct. Why are animals being restricted or extinct? The answer for this may be “Anthropogenic activities”.

As the human population increases rapidly, the need to fulfill all human necessities lead to the destruction of the natural ecosystem. Anthropogenic activities rapidly destroyed the natural habitats of animals and due to these activities, animals face a lack of survival rates and leading to extinction. Think about that if the place we live has full survival strategies and we live happily, suddenly someone enters our area from which we feel danger. Firstly, we are restricted to our specific area due to fear of danger and not going out to get our necessities and slowly we will die due to a shortage of survival strategies, remember the same thing happens with animals and we humans act as a danger to them.

When an animal leads toward extinction we humans start to protect them in captivity or make legislation which most of the time has no proper fulfillment. We make legislation and captive protection because we have our interests. We, humans, need animals for our study purposes or different experimentations, it is just our concern that we protect them in captivity rather than leave them free in their natural habitat. Animal diversity suffers just for our activities and we call it captive conservation for their protection but for the animals it is just a cage or prison in which they live like prisoners. There is no other way for animals than captivity because human activities are unstoppable and even humans themselves cannot stop them as development is a need of today’s world. Humans slowly cover animal places and animals cover cages made by humans.

As the world goes towards development we think that this is just our earth not for the animals. Do animals have no right to live freely? Many agencies work for animal conservation but nobody works on why there is a need for conservation. If we called all animals “Human Victims” rather than saying their names, it would be a perfect name for all animals.

The animal did not destroy their habitat and did not wish for captivity. If we say anything by standing in place of animals then we should say that “there is only one earth, can we live together by not disturbing each other….”