The phenomena of captive animal release are treated as unique and single in varieties of arguments about it. In this paper the phenomena of religious captive animal release are discussed in the historical contexts to reflect on the construct of the knowledge of captive animal release and the dialectical relationships between the traditional captive animal release and modern social problems. Finally, why and how the problem of captive animal release became a public issue and how to do a “correct practice of captive animal release” are elaborated. By the method of discursive analysis, we find that the biological community and the religious groups practicing captive animal release are influenced by each other in the last two decades. on one hand, newrecognitions about the social issues are formed according to the paradigmatic shift in the biological community. on the other hand, new practices of captive animal release are adopted by religious group to accommodate to the biological knowledge. And some kinds of “counter-discourse” are developed among the religious groups who practice captive animal release. Therefore, for the phenomena of captive animal release to become a public issue and the emergence of correct practices of it is formed under the shifting articulation between biological paradigms, consciousness of environment-preservation, interpretation of religious texts and politicaleconomic contexts in Taiwan. The knowledge of captive animal release and critics of it are both contextual.