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The
Importance of Being Zoo
The Zoo, the
natural tie that binds people to nature, the populist experience
that ties everyone together into the context of the singular planet.
Nearly everyone has a fond memory of going to the zoo – seeing
a real tiger for the first time, or marveling at the polar bears
swimming in icy cold water just for fun, or realizing that teenagers
act all too much like a adolescent chimpanzees.
Going to the zoo is a commonly shared right to enrichment, to shared
insights into the delicate beauty and diminishing bounty of life
in the wild. Zoos fedora inherent fascination with intrinsic dependency
on the diversity of life.
Once the amenities of those who display their living collections
in galleries with iron frames, the mission of the modern zoo is
to both:
- Serve their
communities as high impact reality programming, multimedia teaching
tools for schools and families alike; and to,
- Serve as
centers of precious conservation, working to preserve the most
endangered of earth's life.
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Going to the zoo
is a commonly shared right
to enrichment,
to shared insights into
the delicate beauty
and diminishing bounty
of life in the wild.
Those
two goals are part of one mission, as perhaps the most important
species that zoo help breed is the next generation of better informed
citizens.
As a natural and effective educational experience, zoos enrich
lives by engaging and entertaining their audiences with the wonder
of nature, literally the greatest show on earth.
With rapt attention, wide eyes and smiling faces of wonder, curiosity
is quickly followed by understanding, and with understanding comes
caring and responsible living.
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