Why Orcas should not be in captivity.

Why we need to help animals out of captivity

                      By Maia Lonneker

We need to help animals get out of captivity!

My first point is that it is wrong that animals are kept in zoos, sea world and lots of other places. Animals are in places they shouldn’t be right now. People have treated animals like they are worth nothing. Animals are a vital part of the world. Animals should be left in the wild because they will be able to be with their families. Animals need their families like people need families!

My second point is that Zoos and SeaWorld don’t have room for animals to play, to eat food and be with their families.  Local people feel that animals don’t have much room in captivity but in the wild they have lots of room. Captivity will ruin their quality of life.

Did you know tigers and lions have 18,000 times less space in zoos than in the wild? Also did you now that polar bears have millions of times less space  and that why some animals are going to be endangered because animals are in captivity.

If I was an animal in captivity I would feel  depressed and angry. Also I believe SeaWorld should be closed down because animals don’t like it and I hope you agree with my reasons to close SeaWorld down. If you were an animal in SeaWorld would you want to get treated like that?

Did you know in 1965, the first ever orca show at SeaWorld, San Diego in California was performed by an Orca called Shamu?

 During Shamu’s capture, her mother was shot with a harpoon and killed before the young orcas very eyes by a marine cowboy named Ted griffin. She was then taken to Seaworld and captivity.

Sea world confines whales and dolphins, who often swim up to 100 miles a day in the wild, to tanks that to them are the size of a bathtub.

Sea world presents itself as a family establishment full of fun educational activities. However these activities harm animals physically and emotionally.

SeaWorld has the  financial means and ability to create coastal sanctuaries, were the orcas would have a more natural and less stressful life and where they could feel the tides and waves, and communicate with their wild relatives and other ocean animals and engage in other natural behaviour that they are now denied.

I strongly believe that SeaWorld should be closed because I don’t like the way SeaWorld holds the animals in captivity. Think about it? How would you feel if you were held in captivity for the entertainment of others?

Thank you.