Zoo Ethics: The Challenges of Compassionate Conservation

By Jenny Gray

Zoo Ethics examines the workings of modern zoos and considers the core ethical challenges faced by people who choose to hold and display animals in zoos, aquariums, or sanctuaries. Jenny Gray asserts the value of animal life and assesses the impacts of modern zoos, including the costs to animals in terms of welfare and the loss of liberty. Gray highlights contemporary events, including the killing of the gorilla Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016, the widely publicized culling of a young giraffe in the Copenhagen Zoo in 2014, and the investigation of the Tiger Temple in western Thailand.

Gray describes the positive welfare and health outcomes of many animals held in zoos, the increased attention and protection for their species in the wild, and the enjoyment and education of the people who visit zoos. Zoo Ethics will empower students of animal ethics and veterinary sciences, zoo and aquarium professionals, and interested zoo visitors to have an informed view of the challenges of compassionate conservation and to develop their own ethical positions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501714422
• ISBN13: 9781501714429
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Comstock Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher