2Asian elephants - they were gifted by the Prime Minister of Sri lanka

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Dear friends

 

I am wiritng in behalf of ZIVOT,greaest and the most progressive animal

welfare society from Croatia.

Our town Osijek will recive from Japanese people two Asian elephants as a

gift for our zoo. As there is very bad facilities and accomodation without

proper funds to mana ge good welfare for this animals. We are as society

against keeping animals, especeally exotic in zoo's and opposite to bring

this poore elephnats just for the fun.

Please send us your comments and sent it to our mayor his adresse is

zlatko.kramaric .Express your opinions and help us. Our

municipality is the owner of the zoo. More about us yu can read on www.zivot.hr.

ZIVOT

Davorko Feil, president

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Davorko Feil

ICQ#: 166488162

zivot

 

 

 

 

 

How can anybody send any animal to Japan and trust them ?The way they kill

whales is disgusting.

The cage in Croatia is not enough for the two elephants to turn even.This is

very cruel.

 

The Japanese government is forcing our country to start a hydropower project

in Upper Kotmale .

That project will destroy 7 waterfalls of Sri lanka.That will destroy

endemic fauna and flora in up country and will change the climate in the

country.There would be earth slips which would destroy a large area in up

country.

A Japanese company would be doing the constructions work for the project.It

was reported that the Japanese Government has threatened to cut down

Japanese aid to Sri lanka.

..Please send your views to THE Prime Minister of Sri lanka and ask him to

not to send these two elephants to Croatia or Japan .At present 3 elephants

are killed per week in Sri lanka.We are not in a position to export our

animals .

 

 

Prime Minister Mr. Ranil Wickramsinghe

e.mail pm_sec

 

SRI LANKA: April 30, 2002

 

 

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka gifted two baby elephants yesterday to Japanese children

who were saving their pocket money to buy a jumbo for a zoo in Croatia.

 

A group of Japanese children began pooling their pocket money for an elephant

after they were moved by reports about the impact of the recent conflict in

the Balkans on a zoo in the Croatian city of Osijek.Seven Japanese children

wrote to the Sri Lankan government for help and visited the country last year

to find a suitable animal.Their efforts were rewarded yesterday when Prime

Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe gave them two elephants.The children will give

one to the Osijek zoo and take the other back to Japan to mark 50 years of

diplomatic ties with Sri Lanka.

 

Actually Eath Athuru Sevana and Pinnawela are orphanages which bring up

baby elephants whose parents have died.The Department of Wild life should

work hard to protect the animals so that there would be no more orphaned

elephants.They should ask the department to target that achievement.