In Chapter 9 of the OC book we look at the future. Our future is full of uncertainty and problems. For one thing, the global population is growing fast, and a larger percentage of people have money to spend on manufactured products. Therefore, the habitat of wild animals is being destroyed to help boost all kinds of production and economic growth.
It's clear that many animal species will become extinct before long. Even the tiger, such a beautiful creature, is likely to disappear from the wild very soon. What can we do? As much as possible, I guess we have to create protected areas and enforce them more strictly, and have breeding programs in those protected areas to raise young endangered animals that naturally live around there. That will not always be 100% successful, but it seems to be the only answer.
I hate zoos though. Pandas don't belong in Japan, giraffes don't belong in Australia, and so on. I don't believe that owners of zoos who claim they are helping animals are sincere. They are just making innocent creatures prisoners, often in very small cages, and making a profit from visitors. My wife wanted to go to Asahiyama Zoo this summer, so I reluctantly agreed to go. Seeing magnificent creatures, such as wolves, moving up and down, up and down, again and again in the same small space (slowly going crazy) just made me feel depressed.
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