Are zoos a good thing?

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Zoo Awareness Day (ZAD) is a day on which people __________ the place and value of zoos in the twenty-first century. It is __________ by the Captive Animals’ Protection Society (CAPS), which says zoos are mainly for tourism rather than protecting animals. CAPS says that even though many zoos __________ themselves as places of education, conservation and research, they are really just a tourist __________. ZAD is to make people aware that animals in zoos __________ from physical and psychological problems because they are in __________. CAPS says the “protection of natural habitats is the only way to prevent __________ species decline”. The organization says people today can learn about animals from the Internet and by __________ at high definition TV.		promote suffer organized further attraction looking question cages
So what do people do on Zoo Awareness Day? CAPS hopes you are __________ enough about animal rights to join different campaigns. Suggestions include holding peaceful __________ outside zoos, writing letters to newspapers and __________ up information stalls to tell people that animals belong in the __________. CAPS says: “We don’t need zoos anymore….Keeping these beautiful creatures caged up and __________ to tears for our sake is just plain wrong.” What do you think of zoos? Are they necessary in this day and age? Everybody __________ that we should protect animals and ensure their survival, but do zoos actually help this? Maybe some of the world’s zoos do play a __________ in conservation and education, but there are others in which animals do __________.		wild  agrees concerned role setting suffer protests bored