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Elephant Advocates Take to the Skies
Check out this story on Komo News about tomorrow’s exciting event. (Excerpt below) Banner protesting treatment of zoo’s elephants hitting Seattle skies The local group crusading for the release of the...
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Woodland Park Zoo continues unethical elephant breeding
Seattle, WA – Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) artificially inseminated Chai, a female Asian elephant, for the 59th time on December 5, 2011. The previous 58 artificial inseminations over 20 years have all...
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New Year Message of Hope from Lily Tomlin
From Lily Tomlin: My heartfelt thanks to everyone for their contribution—large and small—in the effort for Bamboo, Chai and Watoto to have a better life. Let’s hope 2012 brings them peace and finds...
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AZA Bullies Toronto Zoo
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) has stripped the Toronto Zoo of their accreditation for allowing their three elephants to be retired to PAWS in California, a vast sanctuary in an...
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KOMO News: Advocates file appeal, aim to send zoo elephants to sanctuary
Check out coverage from KOMO News on our efforts to release the WPZ elephants to a sanctuary that would offer them a natural setting where they could live like elephants for the first time in decades....
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Press Release: Crisis of Confidence at Woodland Park Zoo
Seattle, WA – Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants applauds Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter, Michael Berens for uncovering what zoos desperately try to hide from the public: elephants...
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Task force to take closer look at WPZ elephants
The Seattle Times reports: Woodland Park Zoo’s elephant exhibit will be scrutinized by a panel of experts as part of a task force requested by Seattle City Council members who said they are concerned...
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Press Release: Fox Guarding the Hen House
Seattle, WA — Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants is hopeful the Elephant Task Force will reach the conclusion that elephants are not suited to be in Woodland Park Zoo’s elephant exhibit—especially...
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Double your donations May 15th!
Your donation will be doubled on May 15th by The Seattle Foundation! On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants (a NARN campaign) and NARN will share in receiving matching funds...
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IDA attends Woodland Park Zoo “Elephant Task Force” meeting
From In Defense of Animals’ website: In Defense of Animals (IDA) attended the first meeting of the Woodland Park Zoo’s “Elephant Task Force” on April 18th. Based on observations of the panel over the...
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Press Release: Damage control by the Zoo
Seattle, WA – The third meeting of the Woodland Park Zoo’s (Zoo) Elephant Task Force will be held on Wednesday, June 26th from 4 – 8 pm at the Seattle Central Public Library. The event is open to the...
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Letter to Zoo Task Force: Reach out to elephant experts
A simple and sensible suggestion from concerned citizen, Elizabeth Mitchell: Mr. Jay Manning, Task Force Members, and Anne Fennessy: I see in “Public Comments” that contact information on many...
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Rebuttal to the Zoo’s Responses to “An Optimal Future”
Lisa Kane, author of An Optimal Future for Woodland Park Zoo Elephants, provides a rebuttal to the zoo’s responses to An Optimal Future. Here is an excerpt: The Zoo, again, refuses to address the...
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Special Report: The Zoo’s Task Force
Chai confined in half of tiny, barren stall Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants was initially hopeful that Woodland Park Zoo’s “Elephant Task Force” would conduct a thorough and objective review of...
View ArticleLetter: Task Force needs objective experts outside zoo industry or report...
Dear Woodland Park Zoological Board Member, We commend the Woodland Park Zoological Board for having the good judgment and estimable intentions in forming the Elephant Task Force. We assume you want...
View ArticleResponse to the Task Force Final Report
See also our Special Report on the Zoo’s Task Force The recommendations of the Task Force in their final report were to be expected by the fact that the Zoo Board handpicked the Task Force members. The...
View ArticlePress Conference Wednesday Oct. 30th
Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants will hold a joint press conference with In Defense of Animals on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 at 10am. We will release the findings of a new survey that will...
View ArticleSurvey shows Woodland Park Zoo is out of step with Seattle citizens and science
Friends of Woodland Park Zoo held a joint press conference with In Defense of Animals on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 to release the findings of the survey which debunks the Zoo-appointed Task Force’s...
View ArticleWoodland Park Zoo’s biased Task Force gets National Attention
Seattle, WA – Once again Woodland Park Zoo’s elephant program has made In Defense of Animals’ “Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants” — and for good reason. The Zoo’s housing of elephants in a tiny display in...
View ArticleFor Immediate Release: Citizen Alleges Woodland Park Zoo is in Violation of...
Seattle, WA – Alyne Fortgang, a Seattle resident, filed a lawsuit today seeking a court order declaring that the Woodland Park Zoological Society be made subject to Washington State’s Public Records...
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