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 Last Update: Thursday, July 28, 2005. 11:20am (AEST)

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Appeal sees zoo-bound elephants remain in Thailand

Eight elephants that have been approved for importation to zoos in Sydney and

Melbourne will stay in Thailand until September, when an appeal against the

proposal is due to be heard.

 

Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell announced last week that he would

allow Sydney's Taronga Zoo and the Melbourne Zoo to import eight elephants from

Thailand.

 

A coalition of animal welfare groups is asking the Administrative Appeals

Tribunal to overturn the decision, arguing that there is no conservation benefit

in bringing the endangered animals to Australia.

 

In a directions hearing today the tribunal has set aside one week in September

to hear the appeal and Justice Downes said he would try to deliver his final

decision within days or weeks of the appeal hearing.

 

The elephants will stay in Thailand until the final day of the hearing, when

another decision on their short-term future will be made.

 

 

 

 

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