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1. Write to your Senators and Representatives to protest the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s willingness to allow the commercial trade in wild elephants, as evidenced by the agency’s approval of permits for the San Diego and Lowry Park Zoos to import 11 wild African elephants and the Six Flags Marine World amusement park to import 2 baby Asian elephants from India. Explain that wildlife advocates have been forced to go to federal court three times to force the agency uphold the U.S. Endangered Species Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) regulations. U.S.
House of Representatives U.S.
Senate Capitol
Hill Switchboard 2. Tell the Lowry Park and San Diego Zoos what you think of their plan to take 11 wild capture of 11 wild African elephants from Swaziland, where they currently roam over more than 2,000 acres, and confine them to zoo lots of just 2 acres in size for their entire lives. For the San Diego Zoo, please also register your strong protest of their treatment of three aging female African elephants who were unceremoniously dumped after decades at the zoo to make room for the new, younger elephants. Contact: Douglas
Myers, Executive Director C.
Lex Salisbury, President and CEO 3. Notify your local AZA-accredited zoo that you won’t visit until elephant captures for U.S. zoos are halted, and please contact the AZA to urge officials to immediately implement a policy that forbids future imports of wild elephants for U.S. zoos: Syd
Butler, Executive Director 4. Contact Swaziland officials to register your disapproval of their willingness to sell out the wildlife they are supposed to protect. (From the U.S., postage is 80¢; from the U.K., postage is £1.05.): His
Majesty King Mswati III |
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