Africa’s elephants are being slaughtered at an alarming rate, poached for their tusks to meet a growing demand for ivory in Asia. Please urge CITES to reject any future proposals for trade in ivory, support improved protection for elephants, and return to the full ban on the sale of ivory.
Tania is a female elephant suffering a life of solitary confinement at the Targu-Mures Zoo in Romania. Please write to the European Commission and the EAZA.
While the Oregon Zoo has purchased the legal rights to Lily and Tusko, In Defense of Animals remains skeptical about the elephants’ future.
In Defense of Animals hopes that President Obama’s nomination of Sally Jewell as the next Interior Secretary is a move in the right direction for America’s wild horses and burros.
In the small hours of November 30, the Oregon Zoo’s 18-year-old elephant Rose-Tu gave birth to a little girl.
On April 25, 2011, a male elephant was born at the Carson and Barnes Circus winter quarters in Hugo, Oklahoma. He was named Hugo, a name that – according to the circus website – “just sounded circus.” Though not yet a year old, Hugo is already on the road. IDA has confirmed that Hugo has [...]
IDA is urging everyone to take just a few minutes of their time this week to help save animals from the misery of circus life. There are a variety of important actions you can take in support of H.R. 3359, the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (TEAPA). This ground-breaking bill would effectively end the use [...]
Last year it was Bob Parsons, head of the Internet domain hosting company Go Daddy, who was pictured with his grisly trophy – a dead elephant he slaughtered in Zimbabwe. (Parsons has since stepped down as CEO of the company.) This time it’s Donald Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald, Jr. Public reaction was swift and [...]
Too many times an elephant in a zoo or circus dies, with no acknowledgement at all. It’s as if she or he never existed. So with this blog IDA marks the passing of 29-year-old Dolly, who performed for nearly her entire life with Jorge and Louann Barreda’s circus act. Her companions Lou, Makia and Lovey, [...]
March 14th will mark the five-year anniversary of the death of the elephant Clara, who spent nearly her entire life in confinement at the St. Louis Zoo. To the public she was just another elephant, easily replaced by another who, to them, looked just the same. They didn’t know that she once had a loving [...]