Animal captivity means the state or period of being held, imprisoned, enslaved, or confined. Animal captivity is a worldwide issue. Places all around the world keep animals in captivity, whether it is for an elephant’s ivory, to keep from endangerment, or for the entertainment business. Animals need to be kept in their natural environment where they can learn how to survive on their own and mentally feel safe around other animals. There is multiple reasoning to animal captivity. Animal captivity starts when professionals believe that animals are endangered. Also when an animal is very exotic professionals like to take the time to study the animal. During animal captivity animals and their offspring are affected. Animal captivity does not have a …show more content…
As well a new social issue that has arisen is unnatural breeding of animals. In recent research animals that belong to the entertainment aquarium as numerous may know as SeaWorld has been unnaturally breeding their orcas. SeaWorld is trying to argue what they are doing is not wrong. They have been in recent lawsuits regarding to the animals that they preserve held at their facilities. Another issue that is going on right now is ivory being taken from elephants. All the way across the world in Africa and Asia elephants are being killed for their tusk. These torturous people are on the side of animals captivity is for the better. Animal captivity to various amounts of people is very wrong and should be