Flora Ele

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"To Be Free!"

Hohenwald, TN, USA
female, age 27
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Joined Nov 22, 2006

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Hometown	Tennessee
Homepage	http://www.cafepress.com/freeflorashop
Birthday	March 03, 1982
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About Me	My name is Flora. I am a 24 year-old female African elephant, or Loxodonta africana to be exact. I was born in Zimbabwe, Africa, and was orphaned at the age of two, when my family was poached for their ivory. I was devastated and was not sure what would happen to me when I was brought to America and adopted by a circus. I performed in the circus for over 18 years, and while an assortment of human and animal friends provided some sense of a family life, there we're no other elephants. In 2001, I was adopted by a group of very nice humans who started Ahali Elephants, a non-profit organization to take care of me. They moved me from the circus to Miami's Metro Zoo, where I could be with other African elephants until a permanent home was located. Little did anyone know, that when I arrived from Africa as a baby, I stayed at the zoo in Miami for a month and so I already knew the elephants there! It was very exciting for me! The nice humans tried to send me back to Africa, to the 2,200-square-mile Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania, where another captive African elephant had been successfully reintroduced into a wild herd. The nice humans were introduced to the idea by Dr. Daphne Sheldrick, renowned for her elephant and rhino orphanage in Kenya. But to everyone's disappointment the opportunity fell through. Although, I was secretly happy not to be going back to Africa -- then I wouldn't be able to see my nice humans anymore! Fortunately, The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, decided to expand their facilities from a 200-acre habitat to an enormous 2,700-acre natural habitat preserve where I could run, jump and play with other African elephants! They even have a HUGE pond I can swim in! I like using my trunk to snorkel! The Sanctuary is sort-of like a very expensive permanent summer camp for elephants, that's what my nice humans say. They're always concerned about raising something called money? I try and tell them not to worry, and offer them a trunk full of tree-leaves. This doesn't seem to help them, but what can I do? Anyhow, Tange and Zula, two African elephants from Chehaw Wild Animal Park in Georgia, were the first African elephants to move to the Elephant Sanctuary. Then, on the best day of my whole-life - March 3, 2004, which was also my 22nd birthday, I arrived at The Elephant Sanctuary and met new friends Tange and Zula! It was so exciting!!! Anyways, I'm really happy here and very thankful to all the nice humans all over the world who have done nice things to make it possible for me to be at summer camp, oh, I mean The Elephant Sanctuary! Trunks Up from Tennessee! Love, Flora
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Wild Fact About Me	Born in Zimbabwe, Africa
My Philosophy	Born Free, Stay Free!
What Gives Me Hope	The Elephant Sanctuary & My Friends Tange & Zula
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	Take all the human $ spent on keeping animals in unnatural attractions, like zoos, and spend it on maintaining animals in their natural habitats, thus also imapcting the local communities and economies.
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Quotation	Trunks Up!
Interests	wildlife, animals
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Flora's Sharebook

	One Lucky Elephant -- a fantastic elephant documentary in progress (Dec 20) Hi All- This is a picture of me and my human-dad, David, from the film ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT that's being made about us. Check out t... more »
	Flora the Elephant's Holiday Newsletter (Dec 20) Dear Elephant Friends, Happy Holidays! I hope this finds you and your family well. Thank you for believing and participating in A... more »
	Bob Barker pledges money to send LA Zoo elephant to sanctuary (Dec 16) great news!!! Bob Barker's publicist says the game show host will pledge 300-thousand dollars toward housing an elephant from the Los A... more »
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Blu A. (274)

Testimonial on Mar 3, 2007

Happy Birthday Sweet Flora, We Love you bunches,Headbonks and Elephant Hugs too, OXXOXOXOOX, Your pals , Dolores & Blu'AbbeyCat

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Mar 4, 2009 2:18 AM
Blu A. (274)	Happy Birthday Flora, we love you a bunch... xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox the Blu'AbbeyCat family PS: we visited your Endowment page on TES .. we hope you have a wonderful day Flora .
Feb 12, 2009 4:44 AM
Blu A. (274)	Happy Valentines Day Flora ele trunk hugs, oxxoxoxoox Dolores & Blu'AbbeyCat we love you .
Apr 25, 2008 3:58 AM
Blu A. (274)	Hello Flora, ele trunk hugs xoxoxooxoxoxox Dolores & the Blu'AbbeyCatFamily
Mar 22, 2008 5:40 PM
Blu A. (274)	Happy Easter Flora, Bunny hugs oxoxxox we love you Dolores & Blu'
Mar 7, 2008 4:09 AM
Dave O. (2657)	Click “We can see heaven from here!”
Mar 3, 2008 10:34 PM
Blu A. (274)	Happy Birthday Sweetheart we love you, Blu' & Dolores the Blu'AbbeyCat Family Eletrunk hugs oxxooxoxox
Mar 2, 2008 11:57 PM
Blu A. (274)	Happy Birthday Dear Flora oxxoox We hope you have a 'BALL' Blu'& Family
Feb 13, 2008 9:35 PM
Blu A. (274)	Hi Flora, Happy Valentine's Day from your pal, Blu'Abbeycat
Jul 3, 2007 12:20 PM
Blu A. (274)	Happy Fourth of July Flora from your pal, Blu'
Jun 25, 2007 11:56 PM
Blu A. (274)	Happy Summer Flora, oxoxox Blu'
Apr 5, 2007 3:54 PM
Blu A. (274)	HAPPY EASTER FLORA XOXOX, your pal, Blu'
Mar 29, 2007 8:16 PM
Blu A. (274)	You & me ..... Forever FRIENDS xoxox, Blu'A. & Dolores McDaniel
Dec 29, 2006 2:38 AM
Emily M. (341)
Dec 12, 2006 10:07 AM
Melanie B. (142)	"Born free, stay free!" -- I love it! Thank you for working hard to make this happen for captive elephants in North America!
Dec 10, 2006 7:41 AM
Emily M. (341)	Joyful winter wishes! hugs ~Emily
Nov 23, 2006 5:04 AM
Emily M. (341)	Flora, wishing you... on Thanksgiving and always! big elephant hug ~Emily
Nov 22, 2006 8:24 PM
Emily M. (341)	Welcome to Care2 Flora! I am sure you will find lots of friends here...