URGENT: Help needed on the Thai / Australia elephant import campaign!

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Dear all

 

As you know conservation and animal welfare groups in Australia (IFAW, HSI

Australia and RSPCA Australia), Thailand including Friends of the Asian Elephant

and supported by a number of SSN members have been working to prevent approval

being given to the importation of 8 Asian elephants from Thailand to stock zoos

in Australia and New Zealand as part of a " Conservation Breeding Program " .

 

Unfortunately the Australian Minister for the Environment, Senator Ian Campbell

today announced (during a press conference at Taronga Zoo in Sydney and

Melbourne zoo) that he has given his approval to the import of the elephants.

 

IFAW, HSI Australia and RSPCA Australia, with the support of the Born Free

Foundation, have immediately launched an appeal in the Administrative Appeals

Tribunal. We will obviously keep you posted on these developments, but we need

your immediate help!

 

One of the larger newspapers in Australia has set up a poll on its site and is

asking whether the elephants should be able to come to the Australian zoos.

 

Please vote " NO " as soon as possible to this question! We believe the zoos are

getting their supporters to hit the internet and it is showing in the results!

 

<http://smh.com.au/polls/national/form.html>

 

You are only able to vote once, so please circulate this message to all your

colleagues to do the same!

 

Thank you very much for your help!

 

Cheers

Beck

 

Rebecca Brand

Asia Pacific Campaigns Officer, IFAW

 

8-10 Belmore Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 Australia

Direct Phone (+61) 2 9288 4944 Mobile 0412 345 008

Fax (+61) 2 9288 4901/32 Email rbrand

 

 

 

 

 

 

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