Sunny (the elephant), End Captive Elephant Breeding at St. Louis Zoo, Elephant poaching crisis, Lawsuit to Stop Imports of Elephant Parts, Elephant in the Room
Elephants at the St. Louis Zoo are dying from a deadly virus, but the zoo is still breeding them. Stop putting elephants at risk!
Elephants are dying, and not just in the wild.
Right here in America — at the St. Louis Zoo — some elephants are getting a deadly virus that is extremely difficult to treat.
So why does the zoo continue their breeding program if it puts their elephants in danger? The answer is simple, because a zoo with cute young elephants brings in a lot of money.
Take the story of Kenzi for example. The 6-year-old Asian elephant just died in February from the endotheliotropic herpesvirus. The zoo knows that the virus attacks young elephants. That's why it's extremely wrong for them to keep breeding elephants in such a dangerous environment
If zoos are unable to protect the elephants in their care from a deadly virus, then they should stop breeding them. To continue to do so could subject their elephants to a horrible fate.
We all know elephants are going extinct and it's largely humans' fault. So it may seem like the captive Asian elephant breeding at the St. Louis Zoo is a good idea. That is, until you realize that those elephants have a deadly virus among them that we cannot effectively treat.
Sign now to tell the St. Louis Zoo to end their irresponsible captive breeding of Asian elephants program immediately.
Kenzi was a 6-year-old Asian elephant who just died in February 2018 at the St. Louis Zoo, thanks to the endotheliotropic herpesvirus. The zoo knows that the virus attacks young elephants, those under seven. That's why it's extremely wrong for them to bring those elephants into such a dangerous environment.
There are only 35,000 of these elephants world wide, but this breeding program won't help. Captive breeding is not a solution to species going extinct because sustainable growth must be accompanied by protection of habitats and that would require significant human effort and change that just isn't happening.
This virus is serious. But the St. Louis Zoo is acting like it's not. But that's just because they want to keep breeding elephants in order to attract visitors and make money. There doesn't seem to be a motive in protecting the animals.
Sign the petition to ask the zoo to do the ethical thing and stop their breeding program.
We're in the midst of an elephant poaching crisis, losing an elephant in Africa about every 26 minutes. The response worldwide has been to shut down the trade in elephant parts, except in the United States.
Here, even as the tent poles come crashing down around them, Trump's circus has back-flipped yet again, sanctioning the brutal killing of African elephants.
That's why the Center has just taken new, additional legal action to stop it. Please make an emergency gift to our Trump Resistance Fund so we can ramp up our fight for elephants.
The Trump show keeps getting crazier. Just last week Ryan Zinke, his interior secretary, convened a meeting of NRA lifers, gun manufacturers and Don Jr. lookalikes to give their advice on how to increase elephant and other wildlife trophy imports.
These are the well-heeled people — many of them with close ties to the Trump family — that kill African elephants and other animals not for food, but for kicks. They're the same ones who proudly post gruesome images of severed elephant parts from freshly killed animals on social media.
If Trump and Zinke get their way, their trophy-hunting buddies will be making the decisions on how many elephants get to live and how many can be ruthlessly slaughtered. It's a blatant conflict of interest.
But we're not going to allow them to do this. Your emergency gift to the Center's Trump Resistance Fund will give us the resources we need to fight for elephants and other victims of the trophy trade.
Our latest legal action adds pressure to our existing lawsuit contesting the administration's decision last November to lift an Obama-era import ban on Zimbabwe elephant trophy imports and greenlight imports of Zimbabwean lion trophies to the United States.
Lifting the ban and approving permits on a trophy-by-trophy basis is sure to fuel more elephant killing, pushing these gentle, majestic creatures closer to vanishing forever. We're going to do what it takes to make sure that stops right here.
Our hard-hitting attorneys, scientists and organizers get the job done. You provide the resources they need to fight and win.
Free Sunny the elephant from the concrete cell where she has been imprisoned alone for 29 years.
For the past 29 years, Sunny has constantly run her trunk along the walls of her tiny cell at the Nomi Ishikawa Zoo in order to cope with her boredom and loneliness. As a result, the walls are covered in dark marks.
The writing is literally on the wall — Sunny is in distress. And unless Japanese authorities do something right now, we could lose Sunny to captivity-related illness just like we lost Hanako two years ago.
Sign this Care2 petition demanding that the Japanese government makes it illegal to keep elephants isolated and without adequate housing and care.
When it is cold and snowy outside, the zoo keeps Sunny locked in her concrete indoor enclosure where she barely has room to turn around. Elephants need to roam for miles on soft ground every day in order to avoid life-threatening foot and joint ailments. Keeping Sunny in such a small space is endangering her health.
In the wild, elephants spend their entire lives in tight-knit family groups. They are incredibly social creatures. Keeping Sunny isolated from other elephants for 29 years is similar to keeping a person locked in solitary confinement for 29 years. It's torture.
Our efforts to free Hanako were unfortunately too late, but Sunny is still a relatively young elephant. We have time to make her life more comfortable and to ensure that her story does not end in tragedy. So sign the petition now to save Sunny.
Right here in America — at the St. Louis Zoo — some elephants are getting a deadly virus that is extremely difficult to treat.
So why does the zoo continue their breeding program if it puts their elephants in danger? The answer is simple, because a zoo with cute young elephants brings in a lot of money.
Take the story of Kenzi for example. The 6-year-old Asian elephant just died in February from the endotheliotropic herpesvirus. The zoo knows that the virus attacks young elephants. That's why it's extremely wrong for them to keep breeding elephants in such a dangerous environment
If zoos are unable to protect the elephants in their care from a deadly virus, then they should stop breeding them. To continue to do so could subject their elephants to a horrible fate.
We all know elephants are going extinct and it's largely humans' fault. So it may seem like the captive Asian elephant breeding at the St. Louis Zoo is a good idea. That is, until you realize that those elephants have a deadly virus among them that we cannot effectively treat.
Sign now to tell the St. Louis Zoo to end their irresponsible captive breeding of Asian elephants program immediately.
Kenzi was a 6-year-old Asian elephant who just died in February 2018 at the St. Louis Zoo, thanks to the endotheliotropic herpesvirus. The zoo knows that the virus attacks young elephants, those under seven. That's why it's extremely wrong for them to bring those elephants into such a dangerous environment.
There are only 35,000 of these elephants world wide, but this breeding program won't help. Captive breeding is not a solution to species going extinct because sustainable growth must be accompanied by protection of habitats and that would require significant human effort and change that just isn't happening.
This virus is serious. But the St. Louis Zoo is acting like it's not. But that's just because they want to keep breeding elephants in order to attract visitors and make money. There doesn't seem to be a motive in protecting the animals.
Sign the petition to ask the zoo to do the ethical thing and stop their breeding program.
Here, even as the tent poles come crashing down around them, Trump's circus has back-flipped yet again, sanctioning the brutal killing of African elephants.
That's why the Center has just taken new, additional legal action to stop it. Please make an emergency gift to our Trump Resistance Fund so we can ramp up our fight for elephants.
The Trump show keeps getting crazier. Just last week Ryan Zinke, his interior secretary, convened a meeting of NRA lifers, gun manufacturers and Don Jr. lookalikes to give their advice on how to increase elephant and other wildlife trophy imports.
These are the well-heeled people — many of them with close ties to the Trump family — that kill African elephants and other animals not for food, but for kicks. They're the same ones who proudly post gruesome images of severed elephant parts from freshly killed animals on social media.
If Trump and Zinke get their way, their trophy-hunting buddies will be making the decisions on how many elephants get to live and how many can be ruthlessly slaughtered. It's a blatant conflict of interest.
But we're not going to allow them to do this. Your emergency gift to the Center's Trump Resistance Fund will give us the resources we need to fight for elephants and other victims of the trophy trade.
Our latest legal action adds pressure to our existing lawsuit contesting the administration's decision last November to lift an Obama-era import ban on Zimbabwe elephant trophy imports and greenlight imports of Zimbabwean lion trophies to the United States.
Lifting the ban and approving permits on a trophy-by-trophy basis is sure to fuel more elephant killing, pushing these gentle, majestic creatures closer to vanishing forever. We're going to do what it takes to make sure that stops right here.
Our hard-hitting attorneys, scientists and organizers get the job done. You provide the resources they need to fight and win.
Free Sunny the elephant from the concrete cell where she has been imprisoned alone for 29 years.
The writing is literally on the wall — Sunny is in distress. And unless Japanese authorities do something right now, we could lose Sunny to captivity-related illness just like we lost Hanako two years ago.
Sign this Care2 petition demanding that the Japanese government makes it illegal to keep elephants isolated and without adequate housing and care.
When it is cold and snowy outside, the zoo keeps Sunny locked in her concrete indoor enclosure where she barely has room to turn around. Elephants need to roam for miles on soft ground every day in order to avoid life-threatening foot and joint ailments. Keeping Sunny in such a small space is endangering her health.
In the wild, elephants spend their entire lives in tight-knit family groups. They are incredibly social creatures. Keeping Sunny isolated from other elephants for 29 years is similar to keeping a person locked in solitary confinement for 29 years. It's torture.
Our efforts to free Hanako were unfortunately too late, but Sunny is still a relatively young elephant. We have time to make her life more comfortable and to ensure that her story does not end in tragedy. So sign the petition now to save Sunny.
