Three US zoos have just announced a ‘Conservation Partnership’ with Swaziland officials to relocate 18 African elephants to the Dallas Zoo, Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas, and the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Nebraska. These three AZA accredited zoos, now working in partnership with each other, have applied for permits for the import.

The reason (justification) given for the import by the zoos? They claim that degraded landscape due to elephant foraging, unprecedented drought conditions, and not enough land for both the elephants and critically endangered rhinos in Swaziland, make this import and subsequent elephant slavery necessary. According to the non-profit, Big Game Parks Trust in Swaziland, the elephants need to either be exported or killed as a solution.

While Swaziland may truly be in a dire situation, the truth-spin by the zoos is mind boggling, with each zoo claiming heroic, 11th hour efforts saving life threatened elephants from being killed. This is not a conservation partnership, it is a profit partnership, being sold as a rescue mission.

Each zoo will take six elephants, and each zoo will spin its predictable tale of lies and manipulated facts, while 18 more innocent elephants are stolen from their homelands and families, and sold off as commodities to the endlessly greedy and exceedingly out of touch zoo industry. All this will be done under the well crafted lie of conservation.

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