Re: “” July 6 news story.
Your optimistic coverage of an Amur tiger settling into new digs at The Denver Zoo missed an opportunity to be a thought-provoking, impactful piece. It should not be considered a victory to birth new tigers at the zoo (zookeepers hope the new tiger will breed with the zoo’s lone female tiger) when the cubs born here have an underwhelming life of captivity and boredom ahead of them. If we are willing to sit by as their populations are decimated in the wild, we are less than deserving of having cute cubs to ogle over in our zoos.
It would have been great to see the article address what the Denver Zoo is doing to ensure that the captive breeding of endangered Amur tigers is for the greater good of their wild counterparts. As someone interested in not only preserving life, but ensuring that life is worth living, I hate to think that captive breeding for human entertainment is the future of wildlife conservation.
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