Noted in the following volume of articles is a movement away from zoos and toward building amusement parks. Quite frankly, why bother?
Everything wholesome in the USA has been turned into a profit margin and so have zoos. While the public has pursued the morality of keeping animals in controlled living conditions among human populations in facilities called zoos, some have exploited the popularity of this institution to commercialize the facilities including attaching them to 'theme amusement parks.'
Like what gives? The one wholesome place a parent has to take their children that didn't promote exploitation of home budgets, was the zoo. Now, the zoo is being attached to amusement parks and they will become unaffordable. The 'theme parks' such as Disney are astronomical in cost and are not conducive to engaging the public on a regular basis or a realistic option for 'class trips.' The entire focus is exploitive and in the long run will destroy zoos.
The argument for such affiliations is that an amusement park will provide higher incomes to the zoo and therefore be a benefit for the zoo. That won't happen. Amusement parks are viewed as long term investments that will provide an income over time. Depreciation of manmade structures and all that mess. During that time the cost of supporting the zoo where 'live animals' demand food, water, veterinary costs, fiscal support for research and fostering endangered species where moral venues such as Global Warming is embraced will become a 'burden' to the cost of operations of the amusement park. The commerical interest of the amusement park will never benefit the zoo, it will close it down.
Capital investments, as a commercial amusement park, will continue to return an income so long as people continue to come. In the long view, the cost of maintaining an amusement park is far less than that of a zoo and eventually the 'cost effectiveness' of the amusement park for 'investment on the dollar' will cause decisions to close out zoos. After all in compensation to sacrificing the zoo, there can be new automated virtual tours that will keep 'the theme' viable long after the animals are gone. That's America. Remember what I say here because in five years from now capitalism will have proven to destroy what Americans were flocking to in love of the animals and the mission.
Ameicans need to decide whether they want zoos or not, but, don't bother building amusement parks to distract from that moral decision. The amusement parks will remove the decision and place it on a 'cost balance' sheet.
I ask myself one question: Why build an amusement park when those millions and billions of dollars can be used to improve zoos and place them in fiscal stability for decades to come?
Why was an amusement park viewed as beneficial to a zoo at all when it is nothing but noisy and stupid where 'thrill seekers' gather to be exploited in summer heat while corporate interests only provide more danger to lives rather than quality.
Zoos need investment to bring many up to speed in supporting the animals, the research and providing comfortable and safe facilities to the public. It's a hideous idea. If the public doesn't want zoos then close them, but, why waste the money on stupid 'theme amusement parks?' Makes no sense.
