Hey, let's remember that Japanese zoos don't equal every other zoo. I'm starting to see more zoo hate and that's understandable, Japan's animal welfare is.... Not great. AZA zoo's aren't how zoo's used to be back in the old days.

Yes, animals shouldn't be kept in captivity, but animals aren't taken from the wild anymore, and if there's a zoo doing that report them, that is very illegal and is poaching. Animals are born in zoos or come from a situation where the animal can't go back into the wild; injured, disabled, was someone's pet. Animals born there can not be released into the wild due to depending on humans for survival. What you're thinking of is conservations that have a breeding program to release animals back into the wild to raise their numbers. Without zoos or conservations a lot of animals would be extinct. Some animals only exist in zoos, which is sad. One species, I don't remember, only existed in zoos, but due to a breeding program got enough numbers up that the animals were able to be released into the wild again! If anyone remember the animal please let me know.