Simmering in the Soil

A quote from an article by author Edward Hoagland, age 76, published in Harper’s Magazine, March 2009

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Elephants in Zoos: When did Toronto Zoo hire Pinocchio as a spokeperson?

I was glad to see for once Torontonians having a protest at the Toronto Zoo over the elephant enclosure. The Toronto Zoo needs to be in the spotlight more. Just because it isn’t as much of a hellhole as the other zoos in this country doesn’t mean it should miss the spotlight.
CTV covered the story [...]

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Act now to save an entire herd of elephants from being gunned down

Seventy elephants in a large herd consisting of adults and babies in Malawi will be shot due to human-elephant conflict unless funds can be raised to move them to a wildlife reserve.

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is working to raise the funds to relocate the herd to Majete Wildlife Reserve, a protected park, one [...]

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Ringling Marches Eles Into DC While Judge Ponders Their Fate

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Here’s a very interesting guest post by ammcomms about the parade of elephants marching into the District last weekend for Ringling’s Blue Unit circus. She took a lot of pictures and talked to the trainers. You can see all of her photos on her Flickr site.
“Once [...]

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Action Alert for Lucy the Elephant

Free Lucy!
Please write letters and cross post this Action Alert from Zoocheck Canada
Lucy, a 33 year old Asian elephant, is living alone in the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Female elephants are highly social and suffer greatly when held in isolation. In addition to her psychological distress, Lucy has been suffering from arthritis as well as chronic [...]

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Slaughter of Kenya’s elephants

News has been pouring out of Africa recently about the horrifying surge in elephant poaching, including in Kenya’s national parks.
First we had Dr. Cynthia Moss releasing a report on the escalation in poaching of Amboseli’s famous elephants, now in grave danger of being decimated for the ivory trade.
Today, two articles from the Independent:
Slaughter of the [...]

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The Hawthorn Elephant Rescue

Rescuetheelephants, a site dedicated to the rescue of the Hawthorn elephants, and created by an international group of individuals, closed down in January 2008, three years after it was launched. Rather than lose the documentation in that site, the content was moved here, with the text left at the point when we last edited it, [...]

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Zoos and Elephants: Sacrificing the Individual for the Species

Advocates for the welfare of elephants in captivity suffered a major loss when Les Schobert died at his home in La Quinta, CA, on Oct. 14. People who work to better conditions for captive elephants are familiar with Les’s common-sense recommendations for how zoos can improve the lives of their elephants. He was unafraid to [...]

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How long do elephants live?

Advocates for the welfare of elephants in captivity suffered a major loss when Les Schobert died at his home in La Quinta, CA, on Oct. 14. People who work to better conditions for captive elephants are familiar with Les’s common-sense recommendations for how zoos can improve the lives of their elephants. He was unafraid to [...]

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Winterize your elephants

Advocates for the welfare of elephants in captivity suffered a major loss when Les Schobert died at his home in La Quinta, CA, on Oct. 14. People who work to better conditions for captive elephants are familiar with Les’s common-sense recommendations for how zoos can improve the lives of their elephants. He was unafraid to [...]

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