PLEASE SEND EMAIL: Help The Animals @ SF Zoo

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The Board of Supervisors will vote on the Zoo ordinance on Tuesday, September 16, 2008.

 

Please get as many SF and Bay Area residents (*especially SF!!!) as possible to take the action below. EVERY email counts. The supervisors need to hear that people don't think the mayor's proposal goes far enough and that animal-welfare focused oversight is needed.

 

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The Animals At The San Francisco Zoo Need Your Help – NOW!

 

 

Our efforts to help the animals at the San Francisco Zoo have reached a critical stage. We need you to write and call the Board of Supervisors to let them know that the people of the bay area want change for this troubled institution.

 

Unfortunately, the zoo has mobilized its members to lobby the Board of Supervisors against Supervisor Chris Daly’s ordinance to transform the zoo into an institution that places animal welfare as the top priority, and provides a haven for exotic and domestic wildlife in need of appropriate placement.

 

Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed adding one veterinarian and one animal welfare seat to the Joint Zoo Committee, which oversees the zoo. Unfortunately, the Mayor’s proposal is simply not sufficient to provide the fundamental reform that is necessary to address the zoo’s long-standing animal welfare and management problems.

 

We may not have the votes to pass Supervisor Daly’s ordinance, but if the supervisors hear from enough people demanding change, they will be compelled to take action for zoo reform.

 

Here are two important things you can do today.

 

FIRST, visit http://ga0.org/campaign/sfzoo to quickly and easily send an e-mail to all of the Supervisors. This can take you less than two minutes. Then return here and proceed with step two below.

 

NEXT, send a letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in response to this August 9, 2008 editorial (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/09/EDJE12QHO0.DTL & hw=zoo & sn=009 & sc=204) and the article on the mayor's proposal (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/09/BA4Q12ORJR.DTL & hw=zoo & sn=003 & sc=437) both which oppose Supervisor Chris Daly’s ordinance to reform the San Francisco Zoo into a facility that acquires future animals from rescue situations. The editorial makes no mention of the ordinance’s proposal to create a Supervisor-appointed oversight committee

focused on animal welfare at the zoo.

 

Please send a short, polite letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. State your support for the ordinance and the need for supervisor-appointed oversight. The current mayor-appointed Recreation and Park Commission and Joint Zoo Committee have both failed to properly oversee the zoo and the Supervisors must step in as they are responsible for the animals’ well being. The mayor's proposal to add seats to the Joint Zoo Committee is not adequate to address the problems at the zoo. Please remember to note any connection you have to the City of San Francisco or the zoo. Please limit your letters to 200 or fewer words - shorter letters have a better chance of being selected for publication. The editor prefers e-mail. The address is letters. Do not send attachments, the Chronicle's virus-detecting software will delete e-mail

with attachments. They also don't want form letters, which is why we're not giving you a pre-written letter to send to them.

For more information please visit www.RescueSFZoo.com.

 

Thank you.