Zoos: The Federal Animal Welfare Act

The zoo is a modern ark that provides a safe and comfortable environment, saves species while providing animals with happiness and fulfillment, promoting wildlife to the world, and providing important research on the life of animals I often insist that there is. People have moral assumptions that it is banned to keep breeding wild, unsustainable animals. The zoo is an animal prison sentenced without trial. Whether we are responsible for animals, it is not so. We have responsibility and obligation to animals, I think that we need to respect rather than ignore them.

The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) is targeted at zoos, and the minimum residence and maintenance standards for breeding animals are stipulated. AWA requires all animal exhibits to be approved by the US Department of Agriculture. However, some zoos examined by the US Department of Agriculture have proven to have many irregularities later by humanitarian organizations. For more information, see Beyond the Bars edited by Virginia McKenna, Will Travers, and Jonathan Wray.

The welfare of animals other than humans has been widely studied for decades, especially for farm animals, but its importance in zoos and aquariums has increased significantly in recent years. As the number of certification organizations such as the World Zoo Aquarium Association, Zoo Aquarium Association (AZA), Australian Zoo Aquarium Association Association of Animal Welfare Development and Welfare Strategy Committee increase, global welfare efforts of animals in zoos are increasing. Plans and methods In addition, individual institutions such as Detroit Animal Research Institute (DZS), the Chicago Zoo Association, Australian Zoo Victoria, etc. are strong in providing expert welfare experts and resources for research and improvement of zoo animal welfare I am poured.