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Battered and Bruised - Abused Elephants: TAKE ACTION


Animals  (tags: Elephants, AnimalCruelty, abused, investigation, wildanimals )

Animalib
- 22 days ago - ifaw.org
(Cape Town, South Africa) - The rescue of nine cruelly abused elephants from a commercial training facility in Zimbabwe will begin on Monday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) has announced.
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Gorilly Girl (371)
Friday November 6, 2009, 5:39 am
• Elephants chained on one leg and being fed from a distance requiring them to stand on three legs and strain at their chains to reach their food. This practice was intended to enforce the dominance of the handlers and caused severe wounds to the chained legs.
• Restricted access to water and shade.
• Varying degrees of wounds caused by training techniques and chaining.
• An adult female elephant separated from her male calf causing unnecessary stress and physical suffering to both calf and mother.
• Chaining for long hours preventing the elephants from socialising with each other.

and one bull died...greattttttttttt. Freaks shut their flippin ranch down already.

Glad these guys will be brought back and given their freedom.

Big Gorilly Huygs
 

KRISTEN B. (107)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 5:10 pm
JUST SO SAD, THANKS ANIMALIB B. ELEPHANTS ARE A FAV OF MINE, I LOVE ALL ANIMALS, BUT SOMETHING DRAWS ME TO THEM, THERES A FANTASTIC BOOK OUT AWHILE "THE WHITE BONE"
FOR THE LIFE OF ME , CAN'T REMEMBER THE AUTHOR BUT IT'LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND HOW WE LOOK AT THESE MAGNIFICENT ANIMALS...
 

Past Member (0)
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 4:52 am
Signed, thanks you.

Nick
 

EurekaNoPost NoPost (227)
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 9:11 am
I'm very glad that these elephants will now find a safe home - and may the bloody poachers also stay away from them. The only action I found at the site is 'donate' (sorry I can't) and the other action button just loads a blank page.
 

Animalib NO EMAILS (80)
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 2:07 pm
I've gone through this before with IFAW, it has a TAKE ACTION button when you click on it there is no action for the issue.
 
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