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TAKE ACTION; Important Change: L.A. Zoo Elephant Vote: Final City Council Vote Will Be Wednesday, Not Today
Animals  (tags: billy, imprisoned, elephant advocates, city council meetings, elephant welfare, LA zoo elephant exhibit, closing, voting )

Simone
- 6 hours ago - ga0.org
Please Attend And Help Shut Down The L.A. Zoo Elephant Exhibit, And Send Billy To A Sanctuary. Please attend this final city council meeting on Wednesday to show public support for ending Billy's decades of intense and unnatural confinement at the zoo.
Melbourne Zoo's Elephants Heading for Open Range
Animals  (tags: melbourne zoo, asian elephants, open range, relocation, elephant welfare, zoo elephant, room )

Simone
- 12 hours ago - news.com.au
MELBOURNE Zoo's five Asian elephants are to be moved to Werribee Open Range Zoo for better care and welfare. The Age newspaper reported that zoo staff agreed the "ideal" option for the care of the elephants was to relocate them from their enclosure
Where Elephants Walk
Animals  (tags: melbourne zoo, zoo elephants urban zoos, elephant welfare, australian zoos, relocations, sanctuary, elephant advocates, freedom )

Simone
- 12 hours ago - theage.com.au
MELBOURNE Zoo's first elephant, Ranee, arrived at the Parkville campus to much fanfare in March 1883. Within a week the Asian elephant, fresh from Calcutta, was being saddled up in the summer heat for visitors to sit atop as she plodded her way along a
City Council Vote to Stop Work on Elephant Exhibit at L.A. Zoo
Animals  (tags: city council votiing, L.A. zoo, elephant exhibit, billy, elephant imprisoned, elephant welfare, advocates )

Simone
- 1 day ago - abclocal.go.com
A City Council committee voted 3-2 on Monday to recommend that the city stop work on the $42 million Pachyderm Forest at the Los Angeles Zoo, with one councilman saying he does not want to build an "elephant exhibit to nowhere." The Budget and Finance
   

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