Mail a lucky penny to an unlucky elephant this month.

This month, IDA puts the spotlight on our 2014 #2 Worst Zoo for Elephants, the San Antonio Zoo, where Lucky, the last surviving Asian elephant, at 54 survives in a most unlucky predicament. She needs to be retired to an accredited sanctuary where she can be with other elephants and live out the rest of her years in peace and comfort.

IDA is not the only group to have identified the San Antonio Zoo as uniquely horrendous over the years; the zoo has been featured on various international lists in 2010, 2011, and 2014 (sometimes being the only United States or only AZA-accredited zoo on the global list!) The San Antonio Zoo first appeared on IDA’s list in 2007, later earning the #1 worst zoo position for three consecutive years, in 2008, 2009, and 2010,  and then again in 2013.

After being inducted into IDA’s Hall of Shame for failing to make any changes to Lucky’s situation, Lucky the elephant remains alone and isolated from others of her kind, having watched the deaths of at least five of her companions. After the death of her companion, Alport, in 2007, Lucky remained alone for nearly three years before another elephant, Boo, was introduced, though the two were not compatible. Boo passed away three years later, leaving Lucky alone again.

San Antonio Zoo requires our attention because of the sheer and shameful cruelty they continue to force Lucky to endure.

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