Chai, 47, found deceased at the Oklahoma City Zoo OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––“Where will Woodland Park Zoo elephants be sent to die?”, ANIMALS 24-7 asked on December 7, 2015, as the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle finalized plans to transfer Chai and Bamboo, the last two elephants to reside there, to the Oklahoma City Zoo. (See […]
Washington voters trounce hook-&-bullet crowd on behalf of endangered species
71% in favor OLYMPIA––Washington state voters on November 3, 2015 overwhelmingly approved Initiative Measure 1401, introducing state-level felony penalties for the purchase, sale, and/or distribution of products made from elephants, rhinos, lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, sea turtles, pangolins, sharks and rays. At least 50 individuals have reportedly been apprehended in possession with such contraband […]
Update: Elephants, high mountains, and snow still don’t mix, Woodland Park Zoo learns––2,233 years after Hannibal
SEATTLE, SAN DIEGO, OKLAHOMA CITY––The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle on May 8, 2015 denied Friends of the Woodland Park Zoo Elephants’ application for an injunction to keep the former Woodland Park Zoo elephants Bamboo and Chai in temporary holding facilities at the San Diego Zoo. Bamboo and […]
Where will Woodland Park Zoo elephants be sent to die?
SEATTLE––The most difficult winter campaign involving elephants since Hannibal Barca tried to march 38 elephants through the Alps in 218 B.C. to attack Rome may be ahead for the Northwest Animal Rights Network subsidiary Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants and the allied Community Coalition for Elephant Retirement, ironically because of an apparent victory. Only […]