Aquariums are great to visit, and they help educate people about the different species and allow them to experience the animals up close, something they couldn’t do anywhere else. Even though aquariums have their advantages and disadvantages, this article will focus on the positives of aquariums.
Unique Experiences
Aquariums provide a great time for children when they visit but this is also true for adults. They provide a calm, relaxing, and informative environment for people to just take in the breath-taking experience learn about certain species and see them up close, closer than they will ever get to out there in the real world.
Protecting and Researching
Public aquariums have facilities which help these sea creatures. These facilities help in researching these animals to better understand them, this is due to the ease of access people have to these animals, so research is made much easier compared to having to study these animals out in the wild. They help in keeping these animals healthy and well looked after.
Aquariums are improving and trying to better their facilities in order to make sure that the space the sea creatures are living in are as comfortable as possible for them, and as similar to their natural habitats as possible as well.
There are breeding programs which help make sure that these animals do not go extinct. However, there are concerns from critics about keeping these sea creatures in captivity and the mortality rate being higher for some species in captivity compared to their wild counter parts.
Animals in captivity do not need to worry about habitat destruction, or poachers as they will be well looked after and this is one of the greatest benefits as it help to conserve the species and keep them off the endangered species list.
Educating People and Creating Awareness
The larger public aquariums are popular with tourists and this means that the aquariums receive a large number of visitors from around the world. Public aquariums are necessary for people to find out about some of the many species of animals that live in the water. If not for aquariums, people wouldn’t know about most of these animals, and this would result in there being even less concern about the impact humans are having on these animals and the damage that people have done by dropping their garbage into the oceans and other substances such as oil spillages which have killed many sea creatures. Aquariums let people see the beauty of these animals and cause people to gain interest and want to learn more, and this results in people taking action to protect these beautiful animals and maintain their habitat by joining in on causes that help clean up and prevent damage to the oceans and make sure that the endangered species are kept safe and don’t go extinct do to ignorance of the damage that is happening.
