Prevent Wild Elephants From Being Captured for Zoos

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Prevent Wild Elephants From Being Captured for Zoos

 

The San Diego Zoo and the Lowry Park Zoo plan to import 11 elephants who

will be captured from their homeland in Africa. Reportedly, the 12-year-old

elephants are currently living freely on 74,130 acres of beautiful savanna

and fields of umbrella-shaped trees at the Hlane Royal National Park in

Swaziland.

 

These elephants are believed to be among the babies who witnessed the

horror of their families being slaughtered at Kruger National Park in South

Africa in 1994. At the time, traumatized orphans were relocated to Hlane to

live a life of freedom. Knowing elephant behavior, these elephants have

likely

integrated into a herd and have bonded very closely with their new family

members. The zoos have no right to impose another devastating loss and life

long prison sentence in tiny, barren zoo cages on these sensitive,

intelligent animals.

 

If zoos want more elephants, they should take in needy elephants who

are abused in U.S. circuses or pitiful roadside zoos instead of abducting

elephants from their families and homeland, where they have the freedom to

walk many miles a day, swim in watering holes, play in mud pits, and

interact with

their loved ones. Please contact the zoos and urge them to immediately

cancel this cruel, unethical plan:

 

Douglas Myers, Executive Director

San Diego Zoo

P.O. Box 120551

San Diego, CA 92112

Tel.: 619-231-1515

Fax: 619-231-0249

E-Mail: DMyers

 

C. Lex Salisbury, President and CEO

Lowry Park Zoological Garden

7530 North Blvd.

Tampa, FL 33604

Tel.: 813-935-8552

Fax: 813-935-9486

E-Mail: Lex.Salisbury

 

Jane Garrison, Elephant Specialist

PETA

www.circuses.com