Paul Tullis, an editor at TakePart and writer for the New York Times Magazine, tries to answer the question “When you walk into a zoo, are you helping animals or hurting them?” Tullis covers many different topics and stories throughout his article providing evidence that zoos are helping animals along with zoos not helping them. Tullis believes his audience is well aware of the controversy over zoos. Tullis covers many topics in his article one topic is how zoos could put more money into their annual budget for animal conservation when one zoo put only 89 cents toward animal conservation per visitor. Tullis also goes on to talk about how the Santa Barbara Zoo and San Diego Zoo are both trying to help replenish the total population of the Condor bird helping raise captive born offspring to then release them once they had got older. …show more content…
Helping the zoo protect the Mountain yellow-legged frog from becoming extinct. This article was published and written by an organization whose main cause is animal conservation. The article is an extremely useful rescoures helping prove that zoos are helping animal conservation.
Carr, Michelle. "The Reality of Zoos." PETA. PETA, n.d. Web. 16 May 2017. .
Michelle Carr, an author for PETA, a major animal rights activist organization, writes about how zoos are actually hurting animals. Carr presumes that the women she is responding to is not aware of the conditions animals are in while in zoos. Carr talks about how an elephant named Lucy at the Edmonton Zoo is trapped in a barn when the zoo is closed and during the cold winter with barely any room to run causing Lucy to develop arthritis. Meanwhile, in the wild elephants can walk up to 30 miles in just one