Zoos Are Sometimes Seen as Necessary- IELTS Writing Task 2

Zoos are sometimes seen as necessary but poor alternatives to a natural environment. Discuss some of the arguments for and/or against keeping animals in zoos.

Outline

Essay Type

Advantages/Disadvantages essay

Introduction

Paraphrase the topic of the essay and mention that the essay will analyse both sides of the debate.

Body paragraphs

Paragraph 1 – Talk about how creating a natural environment is difficult for the zoo workers for the inhabitation of animals.

Paragraph 2 – Implore how zoos can be essential for preserving and cultivating endangered species.

Conclusion

Restate your opinions.

Sample Essay

Zoos have been entertaining and educative for humans about animals for centuries. Although the containment of animals in zoos is an increasingly controversial topic, some argue that confining animals to their cages in zoos is necessary and healthy. The following essay will analyse both sides of this debate.

First and foremost, a zoo cannot retain a natural aura and environment for any animal to survive with its true instinct. Take lion for an example. The natural habitat for lions is thick grassland, unrestricted flora and fauna, and brush habitat, from dense forests to iconic savannahs, where they get enough cover for denning and hunting. The habitat also provides food and shelter for the animals that the lions prey on. It is challenging to recreate these ambiences where lions can get everything they have in the wild.

Regardless, zoos necessitate the preservation and maturation of endangered animal species. There are multitudinous animals ranging from various big cats to pandas, rhinoceros, gorillas, pangolins and many more that depend on zoos for their protection and safe breeding shelters. Unfortunately, those animals have been driven to the brink of extinction either by loss of their natural habitat due to rampant development and climatic change or hunted for their fur or alleged medicinal properties. Responsible zoos are tasked with breeding them to stabilise falling populations and then re-introduce them into the wild. Without zoos, many species would likely already have gone extinct.

To conclude, the zoo’s existence benefits the animal kingdom, but it is a rather lousy alternative to a natural environment.

Vocabulary

• Centuries

Meaning – a period of one hundred years.
Example – It peaked during the 15th and 16th centuries thanks to tax exemptions on affordable goods.

• Controversial

Meaning – giving rise or likely to give rise to controversy or public disagreement.
Example – A controversial discussion can quickly turn ugly, so tact is often a skill acquired at a more advanced language level.

• Confining

Meaning – keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).
Example – For the immediate future, he will be confining his training to one night a week with each team.

• Aura

Meaning – the distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing, or place.
Example – In this way, perhaps, he seeks to cloak his book in an aura of scientific respectability.

• Fauna

Meaning – the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
Example – No studies have been made in bordering countries, although there are concerns that radiation travels via the wind, water and fauna.

• Savannah

Meaning – a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
Example – They occupy a wide range of environments from the edges of the desert to savannah lands and high forests.

• Ambiences

Meaning – the character and atmosphere of a place.
Example – In accordance with this, cooling ambiences can be divided into two groups.

• Multitudinous

Meaning – very numerous.
Example – I have nearly no dialogue, too many internal monologues and multitudinous plotlines dangling all over the place.

• Rampant

Meaning – (especially of something unwelcome) flourishing or spreading unchecked.
Example – One of the more insidious invasions of our privacy rights is the rampant spread of drug tests in the American workplace.

• Lousy

Meaning – very poor or bad.
Example – I think when it rains and the weather is lousy, they enjoy themselves even more.