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A Lifetime of Misery -- Help End the Mistreatment of Elephants in Entertainment
Animals  (tags: circus elephants, abused, tortured, lola, memoriam, animal activists, elephant welfare, protection, freedom )

Simone
- 104 days ago - bornfreeusa.org
Lota's life was no different. Born in India in 1951 and cruelly taken from the wild when only a year old, Lota spent two years at a zoo in India and then was shipped to the Milwaukee County Zoo in Wisconsin where she spent the next thirty-five years.
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Born Free - Sold Out
Animals  (tags: zoo elephants, deaths, weather, colder climate, peta, protest, elephant welfare, activists )

Simone
- 122 days ago - all-creatures.org
In August 2003, 7 elephants captured in the wild in Swaziland were shipped to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, part of the San Diego Zoo. The three elephants in the San Diego Zoo at that time were shipped to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago where all three
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Donations Help First Street Elephants Go Free
Animals  (tags: good news, street elephants, rescued, freedom, donations, elephant welfare )

Simone
- 124 days ago - news.asiaone.com
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has returned the first elephant to the forestland under the Chang Yim (Smiling Elephants) Project, which earned more than Bt800,000 (S$34,000) in donation money. The project also aimed to set up a fund to
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The Endangered Asian Baby Elephant Apparently Lost His Left Front Foot
Animals  (tags: elephant welfare, rescued, GoodNews, endangered )

Lone
- 136 days ago - planetsave.com
Rescued in a remote area of northeastern Cambodia, the injured elephant was transported by truck to the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in what turned out to be a very difficult and treacherous 26-hour journey. Besides being severely malnourished,
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The Elephant in the Room
Animals  (tags: zoo elephants, honolul zoo, sadness, imprisoned, dying young, abuse, neglect, prisons, studies, elephant welfare, sanctuaries, ban elephants in zoos )

Simone
- 319 days ago - honoluluweekly.com
Empress, the Asian elephant who arrived at the Honolulu Zoo in 1947, lived there until her death in 1986. She was 52. The two female Asian elephants who now call the Honolulu Zoo their home are Mari, 34, and Vaigai, 23.
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Pittsburgh Zoo Elephant Heads Into 'Retirement' in Somerset
Animals  (tags: goodnews, refuge, sanctuary, Elephant Sanctuary, elephant welfare )

Karen
- 360 days ago - pittsburghlive.com
The transfer of Jackson the elephant to a preserve in Somerset County Wednesday represents the fulfillment of a personal promise made by his longtime keeper Willie Theison.
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A Song for Billy: When Elephants Cry © 2007 By: Mayuka Thais   video
Animals  (tags: billy, elephant, elephant welfare, LA zoo, imprisoned elephant )

Simone
- 385 days ago - youtube.com
A beautiful heartbreaking video of Billy.
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Hundreds Turn Out to City Hall Over Elephants, Bob Barker Speaks Out
Animals  (tags: zoo elephants, bob barker, city hall, elephant welfare, LA zoo )

Simone
- 387 days ago - laist.com
In what could be one of the largest public turnouts for a city council meeting in years, former Price is Right host Bob Barker was the first to comment on the Los Angeles Zoo elephant controversy a minute before 11 a.m. this morning. "Let's do get
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Take Action: Help Close L.A. Zoo Elephant Exhibit And Send Lone Elephant Billy To A Sanctuary!
Animals  (tags: sadness, billy, imprisoned, zoo elephant, LA zoo exhibit, elephant suffering, elephant welfare, advocatees )

Simone
- 393 days ago - ga0.org
We urgently need your help to close down the L.A. Zoo elephant exhibit and send its solitary elephant, Billy, to a sanctuary. We are so very close to freeing him from his lonely existence in a miserable, barren zoo pen - please don't let him down!
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Activists Call LA Zoo Exhibit Guantanamo Bay for Elephants- VIDEO
Animals  (tags: activists, elephant prison, zoo elephant billy, suffering, impriosned, LA zoo exhibit, elephant welfare, cruelty, guantanamo bay )

Simone
- 401 days ago - nbclosangeles.com
Lily Tomlin, Bob Barker and Robert Culp were among the celebrity animal activists who compared a $40 million, 6-acre elephant enclosure being constructed at the Los Angeles Zoo to a military prison for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The exhibit,
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Drug-Addicted Elephant Kicks Heroin Habit
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animalcruelty, elephant welfare, elephants, drugs, drug addiction )

Aba Offli
- 466 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
BEIJING - A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox program
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Zoo Elephant Died After Fall -Please Vote Is It Humane to Confine Animals in a Zoo?
Animals  (tags: zoo elephant, petal, death, zoo elephants, imprisoned, elephant welfare )

Simone
- 473 days ago - philly.com
Petal, the Philadelphia Zoo's beloved African elephant, died of acute heart and lung failure after she fell on her side while sleeping, zoo officials said yesterday. What's more, the 52-year-old pachyderm, the oldest of her kind in an American zoo,
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Elephants in Zoos: A Nationwide Problem
Animals  (tags: in defence of animals, fighting for freedom of zoo elephants, abused elephants, sanctuary, battle, elephant welfare, advocates )

Simone
- 592 days ago - secure.ga0.org
"Zoos engaged in nationwide battle with animal rights group over the keeping of pachyderms at facilities" This headline of an AP article featured the battle that IDA is waging on behalf of elephants in zoos across the country. In the five years that
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City of Los Angeles Shuts Down Elephant Circus Show
Animals  (tags: good news, cruel elephant circus act closed down, elephant welfare )

Simone
- 609 days ago - idausa.org
A controversial circus elephant act under federal investigation was shut down yesterday by Los Angeles Animal Services, the international animal advocacy organization In Defense of Animals (IDA) announced today. The elephant act, appearing in Panorama
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Take Action: Stop Science Center From Presenting "Elephant in a Bubble" Stunt
Animals  (tags: science center, elephant abuse, exploitation, protest, elephant welfare )

Simone
- 640 days ago - ga0.org
On March 18th, the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, California, will feature a sensationalist stunt in which a "bubble artist" will attempt to set a record by enclosing an Asian elephant -- a member of a critically endangered species -- inside a
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