Conservation

As things are starting to come to a close, I am finally starting to get a hang of things. Today was my last day doing the education station and I have certainly learned a lot. It helped me learn the importance of conservation and helping others realize it as well. When guest ask how horns from the animals are taken, I make sure it is known that the only way to take the animal’s horns is to kill the animal. Horns are attached to the animal’s skull plate and are not shed off like antlers, even though these horns may be pretty or great hunting tools, you are harming the animal’s population just because you think something is pretty. Again, I love that zoo stresses these points to their guests and I think more zoos need to make more of an effort to talk about conservation and poachers. I think if more zoos took as great of care as their animals as the Naples Zoo does, then we would have happier and better zoos. I think it is all about getting the word out and letting it be known to be people what is out there and what possibilities there can be and that there can be zoos that does not just rip animals out of their habitats.