Two zoos – the San Diego Zoo in California and the Lowry Park Zoo in
Florida — are planning to import from Africa a total of eleven elephants,
to live out the rest of their lives in captivity. This plan is in the
works even though there are 300 elephants in captivity already in the
United States.
The elephants reportedly being targeted are currently living in
Swaziland's Hlane Royal National Park, the same park that took in dozens
of baby elephants in 1994 after their families were slaughtered in a cull
at Kruger National Park in South Africa.
It would be a cruel irony if the same traumatized orphans who were
relocated to Hlane to live out the rest of their lives in peace and
freedom end up being traumatized yet again– captured, shipped overseas,
and condemned to live the rest of their lives in tiny, barren zoo
enclosures. No elephant should be removed from the wild for public
display.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Let the directors of these zoos know that importing elephants from the
wild for public display is unacceptable.
Douglas Myers, Executive Director
San Diego Zoo
P.O. Box 120551
San Diego, CA 92112
ph: 619-231-1515
fax: 619-685-3242
email: DMyers@sandiegozoo.org
C. Lex Salisbury, President and CEO
Lowry Park Zoological Garden
7530 North Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33604
ph: 813-935-8552
fax: 813-935-9486
email: a href=”mailto:Lex.Salisbury@lowryparkzoo.org”>Lex.Salisbury@lowryparkzoo.org
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