captive breeding
Captive breeding is the activity of transforming places where nature should shine into fences and cages, breeding animals for human convenience. Under the grand cause of saving them from extinction, it truly becomes a precise factory managing numbers and genes. Animal freedom and the dynamics of ecosystems are treated as secondary, and genetic diversity is nothing more than a line item in a multi-tiered management list. The beautiful words of compassion and control intertwine, causing us to lose sight of what we truly must protect.