YESSS!!! From a 21st Century perspective of morals and ethics I agree, wholeheartedly.
And yet! People often cite captive breeding programmes as if they are a good thing, forgetting that if we provide the right environments...IN THE WILD...nature will take care of the rest. So then we ping pong back to conservation and the care of the environment and we are, as the caretaker species on this planet, doing a pretty poor job there too. Every time we destroy a region for it's resources we create knife edge conditions for all the life that previously flourished there.
And so this question you raise @scottdphoto, through your beautifully poignant photograph...does, I feel, raise even more.