Category: Video

Town Square: David Hancocks – The Future of Zoos (Video)

David Hancocks, former director of several zoos including Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo speaks about the future of zoos and the future of elephants in zoos.

Watch it here:
http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=5211227

Spaceless in Seattle: Why elephants don’t belong here

Check out this new video, created exclusively to help the elephants at Woodland Park Zoo!

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Elephant Cruelty in the Shrine Circus

We’re all busy, but please take a few minutes to help those who are powerless and suffer at the hands of human greed and ignorance.

An elephant in a Shrine Circus in Pennsylvania kicked and killed his trainer.

Elephants in circuses suffer from brutal training and treatment, are forced to spend hundreds of hours in small travelling containers, and are deprived of everything instinctual to their nature.

Please voice your outrage over keeping elephants in circuses.

 

Here is info and graphic videos of how elephants suffer in circuses:   http://www.circuses.com/

Here is info on the Shriner’s mission:  http://www.alepposhriners.com/shrinersmission.html

Contact info:

Irem Shrine, P. O. Box 307, Dallas, PA 18612.

Shriners International Headquarters, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607, email: shrinepr@shrinenet.org.

Email Shrine Circus: roger@shrinecircus.com

Write your local Congressperson and ask them to support legislation that would abolish elephants in traveling shows.

Video: Lily Tomlin Press Conference In Seattle

Comedian and actress, Lily Tomlin, speaks out on behalf of the Woodland Park Zoo elephants, advocating a move to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. This event was organized by Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56746880

CBS News: On Elephant Sanctuary, Unlikely Friends

On CBS Evening News, Steve Hartman gets an inside look at the relationships the elephants form with each other, and in one case, with one of the sanctuary’s many dogs. Click this link to read the full story or watch the video. It’s a must-see that will lift the spirits.

“Every elephant that comes here searches out someone that she then spends most all of her time with,” says sanctuary co-founder Carol Buckley.

It’s like having a best girlfriend, Buckley says – “Somebody they can relate to, they have something in common with.”

Debbie has Ronnie. Misty can’t live without Dulary.

Those are pachyderm-pachyderm pairs. But perhaps the closest friends of all are Tarra and Bella.

That would be Tarra the 8,700 pound Asian elephant. And Bella. The dog.

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