Looking at imprisoned animals does nothing to create concern, respect, and action for wildlife. If you see something wrong, do something.
Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.
While such efforts may be ideologically sound, they burn people out and reduce credibility. I see the look in their eyes. It is a look I cannot forget, which I will not betray and which will follow me for the rest of my days. But conservation rarely, if ever, needs zoos. And the future of life on Earth is literally in our hands.