Seoul zoo
The so-called “conservation milestone”, as mentioned by Asia Business Daily, at Seoul zoo is the birth of a single cub—bred in captivity, cut off from the wild, and turned into the next attraction. On June 6, a female cub was born to Rostov and Penza, both 15 years old. Officials celebrate survival at “advanced age,” but let’s not pretend this is about conservation. It’s about tickets, headlines, and public contests to name an animal that should never have been in a cage.
Seoul zoo boasts of planting trees to “reduce noise” and delaying road hours so the tigers can “sleep longer.” What they don’t admit is that no amount of landscaping will change the bars. Real conservation happens in Amur forests, not in a glass pen in Seoul. The truth is clear: zoos and tigers are about captive breeding and cruelty, not saving wild populations.
Zoos brand breeding as saving species, but these cubs will never see wild prey, never hold territory, never be free. Call it what it is: cruelty, disguised as care.
The Seoul zoo article:
Based on Asia Business Daily, South Korea.
Photo via Asia Business Daily.
