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Light-filled homes with plenty of green space 30 minutes from Dublin

Bellingsfield offers a mix of three-bed and four-bed house types.

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BELLINGSFIELD IS A new development located just outside Naas town, perfect for families who wish to be near the city centre, first-time buyers, or anyone looking for some extra breathing room.

A mixed bag of detached and semi-detached homes, all properties in Bellingsfield are generously sized and equipped for the needs of a growing family.

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The Foxglove units will be 1,300 sq ft three-beds, and from there sizes increase right up to the four-bed detached Skylark and Bluebell, with floor areas of 1,753 sq ft.

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There’s a substantial amount of greenery, both communal and private, and the expansive landscaped areas around the development will be planted with trees and wildflowers.

High ceilings in each property add to a feeling of spaciousness, and there are en-suite bathrooms attached to many of the bedrooms.

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Many appliances are included in the sale of homes here, including wood burning stoves in some models. All homes are A-rated for energy, utilising an air-to-water heat pump system and photovoltaic panels set into the roof.

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In terms of location, Bellingsfield is hard to beat. Located five minutes from a number of schools – Piper’s Hill Montessori, St David’s National School, Gaelscoi Nás Na Ríogh and Piper’s Hill College – it’s also close to Naas, a bustling town with a good number of restaurants, pubs and shops.

Travelling to Dublin from Naas is easy: several bus routes pass through the town centre, and it’s a short drive to the local train station. Drivers can be in Dublin centre in 40 minutes, too.

Ballymore has a proven reputation for designing family-friendly developments: it was the brains behind the recently launched Piper’s Hill development nearby.

Homes at Bellingsfield, Piper’s Hill, Naas, Co Kildare are on sale from Savills Molesworth Street via Daft.ie. Prices are available upon application

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:56 AM

    Putting the visitors aspect aside for a moment zoos offer invaluable conservation support to endangered populations. There are quite a number of animals extinct on the wild yet surviving in zoos. The “saddest bear in the world” is not in a zoo – it’s in a glass cage in a shopping centre. That is absolutely barbaric but not representative of zoos in the first world at all. Visitors are necessary to fund the work zoos do.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:18 AM

    #Zoo lives matter.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:21 AM

    Most of the animals in a zoo can’t breathe underwater, so it would be very cruel and unlikely to make profit.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:39 AM

    From what I gather the problem with the conservational aspect of zoos is that because the animals are raised in captivity they never develop the much needed survival skills to survive in the wild. Wildlife parks that fool animals into thinking they are in the wild given the vast open spaces appears to be the way to go

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    Sep 25th 2016, 3:06 PM

    Anyone one remember dublin zoo 20+ years ago it was a disgrace but to be fair to them they have made huge improvements better for animals and great family day out

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    Sep 25th 2016, 4:40 PM

    Earth is one big intergalactic zoo. They’re all looking at us.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:33 PM

    They’re no different really. People always assume that Zoo’s are all about conservation but this is not true. Zoo animals are not suitable for rehabilitation into the wild. Zoos very rarely release off spring. They breed to sell to other zoos under the guise of keeping bloodlines alive.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:38 PM

    @Caroline O’Reilly: It is absolutely the case that only a tiny percentage of animals in zoos are threatened species. Nor do zoos breed animals to return them to the wild. They may in a tiny number of cases be keeping a few animals from a particular species in a Noah’s Ark kind of situation, which is very sad for the animals. If they put their efforts into supporting projects that actually work in the animals’ native countries to breed and return to the wild, or to create protected areas for these animals, that would be a good thing.

    But then you would not be able to pay to gawp at them living an unnatural life in captivity without having to get on a plane.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:40 PM

    @NO 2 FF/FG/LAB: Zoos have no intention of breeding animals for release into the wild! Zoos the world over will kill animals if they are surplus to requirements. The animals are kept in completely unnatural environments and deprived of liberty and a life in line with their instincts. They suffer emotionally – that much has been proven. I would never, ever go to the zoo.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:56 PM

    Foto wildlife park in Cork has breed over 200 cheetahs many of which have been released in the wild

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    Sep 26th 2016, 1:42 PM

    Because animals in zoos aren’t forced to “perform” for the public. A fairly big difference

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:54 AM

    Generally speaking, modern zoos pay a big part in preservation, breeding etc. There are exceptions of course, which are basically circuses and should be closed.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:43 PM

    @Paddy Doyle: That is actually not true at all. They put that out there for the sake of their reputation, but only a tiny minority of animals in zoos are actually threatened species. For the ones that are, they will never be bred to be returned to the wild – those kind of altruistic programmes take place usually in the country of origin of the animal, in much bigger spaces, beside reserves where the animals will be released.

    That is not what zoos are about – they exist so you can pay to gawp at exotic animals living miserable lives outside of their natural environment, without having to go to the bother of getting on a plane. It makes me sad.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:01 AM

    The ethos of most zoos is to preserve a species until such time as it’s safe to reintroduce it to the wild. The sad fact is that if we didn’t keep them in cages, they’d be hunted to the point of extinction.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:34 PM

    Except they don’t reintroduce anything. They breed to sell to other zoos. It’s a business. Nothing more.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:44 PM

    @Amanda Horan: You are absolutely right. They are animals in captivity in stressful circumstances, there for us to go and gawp at without having to get on a plane. The so-called conservation efforts are a tiny part of the work of any zoo – the word ‘green-wash’ springs to mind. Tragic sad places and I will never visit one again.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:10 AM

    The poll doesn’t address the issue.
    Should we have zoos? Yes or No?
    My answer wasn’t an option.

    Yes we should have zoos but we need to do more to make them as close to a natural habitat as possible.

    I wonder the effect on animals when they are out of their natural climate.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:44 AM

    Tom there is a balance required because most animals are too difficult to observe in a natural habitat created in a zoo and therefore visitors can’t enjoy the experience so much and as paymasters might not return as frequently. An example are the Elephants in Dublin Zoo who one might imagine should be easily seen but are often on the other hidden side of the enclosure. There are ropes high overhead on one of the walkways leading from the Orangotan encloure to an island but again you’d be lucky to see them close up. Technology should be used more to meet the balance.The best solution would be conservation parks in the native areas of wildlife but this is difficult to police. Unfortunately flora and fauna are just one part of man’s destruction of the whole living space of the planet.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:46 AM

    And before I’m pulled up I know it’s a ‘u’ in Orangutan…meant to check that one.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:45 PM

    @Tom Burke: People are deluded that zoos are actually playing a role in conservation. That is far from the truth.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:48 PM

    @Winston Smith: i can only imagine this is meant as a joke

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:44 AM

    I don’t think any animal should be kept in an enclosure just so we can look at them every now and then.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:49 AM

    Dublin zoo caters for over 1 million people a yr. If it inspires and educates people on the diversity and beauty of our natural world then it’s a worthy sacrifice. None of the modern zoos have wild caught specimens.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:54 AM

    You could educate people abouf famine in Africa by putting a starving kid in a cage, too. Or you could use television, books, schools and the Internet instead.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:58 AM

    Unfortunately many animals are endangered in the wild. Modern zoo’s have very successful breeding programmes which hopefully will ensure the future of these animals. The animal husbandry and general welfare practice in a modern zoo are excellent. Of course there are many zoo’s that don’t meet that standard which need to be improved, but the educational value of a zoo in an urban area is huge. It allows people to get close and see with their own eyes the magnificence of wild animals. I would rather see a zoo upgraded rather than closed.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:00 AM

    You clearly no very little about the conservation aspects of zoos neal.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:13 AM

    @king Tut: Zoo’s what?

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:16 AM

    Don’t be so naive Neal. Education? Sure we have been educating in masses for years. And we kill millions and millions of lives everyday, but that’s different it’s “livestock” and needed to feed the starving Fat people! For every one bleeding heart there will be a thousand people willing to make a buck. I don’t like zoos but it is increasingly likely that it will be the only place for these creatures to exist in the near future.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:23 AM

    @cholly appleseed: aren’t those the arguments given by sea world also?

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:32 AM

    Well the last time I was at Dublin zoo. They weren’t be forced to jump through hoops or perform for food. Sea world is a circus not a zoo

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    Sep 25th 2016, 2:22 PM

    Such a Simple question who answers I don’t know to these quizzes

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:57 PM

    @Gerry with a J: I agree with you – people have been fooled into thinking that zoos are some kind or altruistic organisation that will ensure that species survive. They are NOT. Animals suffer in zoos, and this has been documented in Dublin zoo too. I would NEVER give them my money. Only a tiny minority of the animals in the zoo are actually threatened. Even those that are will never be returned to the wild. Zoos will kill surplus animals.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:15 AM

    It’s not a Yes/No question. I believe large zoos with large areas & enclosures serve a purpose. But a lot don’t. Depends on the zoo. Dublin Zoo is very good.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:46 PM

    @Brian Finucane: They serve only the purpose of keeping wild animals in captivity so people can come and see them cheaply without having to get on a plane and observe them in their natural habitat in the wild. The stress and unhappiness of captive animals in zoos is well documented at this state. Only a tiny percentage of animals in zoos are threatened species, and anyway the zoos will not be returning them to the wild.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:59 PM

    @Little Diddy No: “They serve only the purpose of keeping wild animals in captivity”

    You’re wrong – sorry. If there were no poachers in the wild, then I would be 100% against zoos. But there are – and species go extinct because of poachers.
    http://news.sky.com/story/more-than-10000-elephants-killed-for-ivory-over-decade-new-figures-reveal-10592614

    Proper zoos take part in breeding programmes and conservation – Dublin Zoo being one of them.

    “The stress and unhappiness of captive animals in zoos is well documented”
    The types of animals that get stressed are generally the endangered ones that are there for their own protection: Orangutans, Gorillas, Tigers, Snow Leopards, Lions, Polar Bears, Rhinos, Red Pandas, etc.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:02 AM

    Think some morons over estimate the fun annimals have in the wild. Avoiding starving and attack from predators.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:39 AM

    They’re wired that way though. Take away the need to hunt and avoid being hunted for food and what do they have that to live for? Could it not be argued that we are an advanced example of that? In an era of connectedness, prosperity and in the main, a provided for species – we are experiencing all kinds of neurosises whereas a reason to carry out those activities would focus the mind on those very things.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:47 AM

    For a lot of us who cannot afford to go on safaris the Zoo is the only way to meet and observe some of the beautiful animals that’s in other parts of the world.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:52 PM

    @gerry o donell: You should try checking yourself into a prison – three square meals a day and you can rule out the danger of being in a car accident or struck by lightning!

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:49 AM

    NO.
    Zoos should be forbidden.
    When I was 6 my father brought me to Dublin zoo. It was the worst experience of my life,,,up to that point. I felt so sad for the beautiful animals locked up in cages and the idiotic people making stupid faces and throwing peanuts at them.
    I cried all day.
    My father asked me what was wrong.
    ‘It’s the inhumanity of it all dad’ I replied.
    I’ve never visited a zoo since………..or a circus.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:51 AM

    I’m embarrassed for you and your father. Cry baby. Maybe you should revisit it as an adult

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:59 AM

    Most 6 year olds think the Zoo is great craic. They wouldn’t know what the word inhumanity even means let alone dwell on it to the point if tears.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:02 AM

    Yeah, I can just picture a six year old saying ‘its the inhumanity of it all’. Did you then have a picnic with cucumber sandwiches and lashings of pop?

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:06 AM

    @king Tut:
    No.
    We didn’t drink pop in our house. Spring water only. Cucumber sambos are still my favourite.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:06 AM

    @Sam Palmer:
    You done all that by 6????

    Have you cured cancer yet?……BS

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:15 AM

    Looks like Joey-Westland has a new account.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:16 AM

    @Sam Palmer: sarcasm, this early on a Sunday?

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:07 AM

    If we don’t have Zoo’s the wild animals will be lost to the world, think of it like Noah’s Ark of the modern world. The preserve most of the animals that are on the verge of extinction and helping to breed animals that no longer can breed in the wild. I do not agree with the captivity of any animal I believe all animals should live fee in their own environments however, they are been taken from the wild used in al kinds of horrible ways. The rich using them as pets, poachers killing them for body parts and then the trophy hunters. The Zoo however, must be one that is used for conservation and funding it from visitors and must be regulated.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:49 PM

    @Charliegrl80: It is not true that zoos do any kind of worthwhile conservation work. A tiny minority of the animals in zoos are from threatened species, and even then if the zoological societies wanted to really help, the way to do it would not be to keep a few in captivity. The projects that really care at all about the animals are the ones who are breeding animals in their own country, in large spaces, and returning them to the wild.

    If people want to ensure the survival of species in the wild, then give money to conservation agencies instead – the ones that provide reserves for threatened species. We have killed half of all wildlife in the last 40 years – buying a zoo ticket will do nothing to reverse that hideous trend.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:48 AM

    I think the journal should do some journalism and stop the stupid pols

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:50 AM

    Would never visit a zoo. Cruel

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    Sep 25th 2016, 10:55 AM

    Before there were zoo’s the only example of wild animals was to see them stuffed as taxidermy or the result of wealthy explorers killing big game in Africa for the trophy of exhibition on a wall. Zoo’s might not be everyones answer but at least the kids can learn to appreciate wildlife in all its forms and recognise the species close up instead of from a book or television.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:50 PM

    @Chris Kirk: It teaches them that it is OK to abuse animals, keep them captive and subject them to that stress because you cannot be a*sed to go see them in the wild.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 12:15 PM

    How can people agree with Zoos? I am amazed! Get yourself in a cage and tell me how it feels? I agree with natural parks yes, where people should not be allowed. The human race is the worst animal in this world, fact.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:08 AM

    Animals that are bred in zoos are generally little more than pets a blank species that have lost the ability to live in the wild so from a conservational aspect a lost cause mostly. These resources used by zoos should be put to use protecting whats left of the wild not protecting species that have little use in the wild. We also seem to care only for mammals.
    Harbouring species that are genetically extinct is how zoos vindicate there neceessity to wildlife conservation. Even the changes zoos are making are not and will never substitute for wildlife conditions. Conservation work should be done on lands that are native to the animal with the idea of releasing as quickly as possible.
    Teaching people especially children that its right to cage animals for our amusement on our days off can not be justified.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:06 AM

    Zoos akin to guantanmo bay prison for animals who have done nothing to anybody

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    Sep 25th 2016, 12:09 PM

    Zoos? No. Wildlife parks? Yes. The main objective of a zoo is to just make a profit. The main objective of a Wildlife Park (such as Cork’s Fota Wildlife Park) is to educate, with a focus on conservation.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:17 AM

    “No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal”.

    Jacques Cousteau

    In my opinion the same can be said for zoos. Little more than money making animal prisons marketed under the guise of conservation.

    Here’s something to look at that puts zoos into perspective….

    On Google maps look up Dublin zoo… Zoom into one of the animal enclosures. Now slowly zoom out until your computer screen is filled with the perimeter fencing of Dublin zoo. Now zoom out until your screen is filled with the perimeter of the Phoenix park….

    Now look again at the enclosure and its size.

    This is the animals’ prison.

    Nothing more, nothing less.

    But visitors who pay to enter get to take home a few selfies and a sense that they’ve gained some form of education as they leave and go home.

    The animals never get to leave and go home.

    The ‘Animal lovers’ who visited the zoo undoubtedly ate dead animals during their ‘Day out’ which further highlights the hypocrisy of those who attend and defend zoos.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:26 AM

    Very sad

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:37 PM

    Yep you’ve gotten it exactly right. I’ve studied animal behaviour. If you know what to look for it’s clear a lot of zoo animals are not happy. The elephants are a good example. Lots of steriotipic / stress behaviour (weaving and pacing). Watched them once and swore I’d never go near Dublin zoo again.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:59 PM

    @Lovely weather: All you say is right. Their natural domains are massively bigger than the pathetic areas they have in a zoo. They show stressful behaviour. It is tragic and sad.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:37 AM

    They’re pointless. A relic of the Victorian age that should be abolished over this century.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:20 PM

    “Proponents of zoos argue that they help protect species, breed animals and educate the public on poaching, habitat loss and preservation.”- just a few thoughts on this part of the article,1, the notion zoos help protect species is laughable because what they are protecting them from is living a natural existence,2, yes they breed animals mostly to sell to other zoos,3, trying to educate the public on poaching is like trying to teach a dog to pee in a tiolet,4, habitat loss will continue while a consumerist economic model exists, and 5, what is the point of preservation of species if the environment in which they might thrive no longer exists

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    Sep 25th 2016, 8:53 PM

    @Moss Cotter: That is right – being bred to be a prisoner in a jail – they would be better off to die out as a species. They do not care about the continuation of their species as an abstract notion – that is a human conceit; they care about a life in their natural environment with their own kind – otherwise what kind of life is it?

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    Sep 25th 2016, 4:20 PM

    Depends on the species’ behaviour and living requirements. If it’s a reptile that’ll be happy in a terrarium then I guess that’s okay. But keeping animals that roam widely in small enclosures, or keeping animals in the wrong climate is cruel and shouldn’t be done

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    Sep 25th 2016, 11:33 AM

    Zoos gives litlle value to wildlife conservation. Very few animals have been successfully reintegrated into the wild for many reasons. Animals in zoos are pets not wild animals and giving them the skills to be fit for release if they ever get released is very difficult. Noahs ark would never have worked because too few individuals in a species were included so they are really extinct.
    We should concentrate on protecting the lands where these species are being driven to extinction where we will be able to protect every organism not just one surrogate species from a habitat.
    Teaching people its alright to cage an animal for our amusement is not something to be continued with in this day and age.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 12:33 PM

    ‘Arabian Oryx was finally driven to extinction in the 1970s. However, luckily rescue activities were started before all of the Arabian Oryxes could be hunted out, so the situation could have been much worse.
    The rescued Arabian Oryx were protected in zoos for a period of time. In 1980, efforts to reintroduce them in the wild began and their numbers gradually started to recover.
    But the nightmare began again. Illegal hunting began in part of the animal’s habitat and its numbers suddenly dropped again. On top of that, the size of the reserves where the Arabian Oryx lives in has been shrunk to a tenth in order to develop resources. Once again the sad fate of this animal continues due to people’s selfishness.’

    So Patrick…based on the above, should we invade Saudi Arabia if they fail to protect the Arabian Oryx?…..didn’t think so…..Zoo’s a have a role to play.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 12:48 PM

    How else will we get to see these animals if we can’t go to see them in a zoo. I don’t come from a well off family so I can’t afford to go to other countries to see these animals unlike a lot of the people on here .

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:01 PM

    @Gerard Connors: Would you like perhaps a place where different human races from all over the world could be kept in cages so you could go and see them too?

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    Sep 25th 2016, 2:52 PM

    Without zoo’s a lot of animals would be gone! We need the zoo’s to keep the population up!

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:05 PM

    @ThatSoBee: That is absolutely NOT true at all.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 1:13 PM

    There are many members of the current generation with so little exposure to real life outside of social media and any form of real challenge, struggle or hardship that things like veganism and animal rights and using dogs as child substitutes have become the norm…

    At the end of the day no one wants to be needlessly or callously cruel to animals or bring about extinction… but we farm, there is a food chain, pests need to be culled to control disease and protect rural populations livelihood and animals are used in labs all over under strict ethical guidelines to research disease.

    That is the reality of human existence. It’s not all cuddling and singing with the animals like in a Disney movie.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 9:03 PM

    @Drew TheChinaman :): Some people are OK with using the millions of gorgeous species that have evolved on our planet over millions of years for their own ends, and hurting and killing creatures that feel pain and distress, or the fact that we have killed half of all non-human life on earth in the last 40 years – unprecedented in the history of the planet, except for meteor strikes and other previous mass extinction events.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 2:20 PM

    Selfish poll response.

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    Sep 26th 2016, 12:03 AM

    All zoos should have a charter to become extinct – they should only be temporary places for providing shelter for the animals they hold. They should not breed captive wild animals. Wildlife photography is so good now, we don’t need the Victorian zoo concept any more. If the resources to manage zoos were put towards wildlife / habitat protection, it would be far better spent.

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    Sep 25th 2016, 3:05 PM

    Depends on what they say.

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