Do you think they still have a part to play? For a while at the start of the green movement, Zoos were villified for keeping animals in 'unnatural' surroundings and many declined and closed as funding dried up.
Zoos like London Zoo in Regents Park though, do vital and important conservation work and research, and is much respected throughout the world for it's work in protection of endangered species.
Should we be supporting them in their work?