Are zoos conservation allies or a colonial remaining?

Abstract

This article aims to reflect upon the discourse that, from the institutional magazine of the Aves Argentinas NGO, supports the necessity of modernization and the continuity of the Buenos Aires Zoo. It makes a critical lecture of the arguments expressed in two articles of that publication, from the conceptual framework of Social Sciences, such as Anti-capitalist theories, Decoloniality theory, Critical Animal Studies and Ecology of knowledges and states that is necessary to introduce these ideas into the practice of Conservation of Biodiversity. In that sense, the controversy that arose from the crisis of the Buenos Aires Zoo can be used to reflect upon, not only about its present and future role before the global environmental crisis, but also to question the ways our society relates to nature.