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Originally Posted: April 20, 2013
FROM Animal Defenders International (ADI)
ACTION
Urgent! Please Take Action!
The deadline for public comments to the US Fish and Wildlife Service is April 22, 2013.
Please send your polite comments to [email protected] making sure to include the following:
1. the Federal Notice publication date – 03/22/2013
2. the application number - PRT-808265
3. the name of the applicant – Gary Johnson
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
Have Trunk Will Travel (HTWT), suppliers of elephants for movies,
circuses, county fairs, parades, and TV advertising, has applied for the
renewal of their Captive Bred Wildlife (CBW) permit “...in order to maintain
the ability to buy, sell, barter or loan captive-bred animals for the
purpose of propagation of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) through its
breeding program and collaboration with the Association of Zoos and
Aquariums Special Survival program and other elephant holding facilities.”
ADI’s footage of the abuse of Tai, the elephant who featured in the film
Water For Elephants, and Rosie, who featured in Zookeeper, can be found here:
Shock Electric - Animal Cruelty to-style (05:33)
Undercover video by Animal Defenders International shows the brutality Have Trunk Will Travel inflicts on the elephants they “own”
and “lease” out for movies, TV shows, commercials and advertisements.
Our disturbing footage shows elephants crying out as they are electric
shocked and beaten with bullhooks. The scenes of baby elephant Tucker being
hooked in the mouth and brutally hit over the head with a bullhook were
heartbreaking. Tai, Becky, Dixie, Kitty and Rosie range in ages from their
late twenties to late forties
Those who have seen the footage of Tai and the other elephants being beaten and given electric shocks will be horrified at the thought that HTWT could be licensed to continue keeping elephants for another five years. It should be remembered that HTWT has not denied the treatment of the elephants, instead claiming that they“…stand by our care and training methods.”
Our investigation of Gary and Kari Johnson’s training methods, and their own defense of those methods, clearly indicates that the way elephants were treated should be classed as harm and harassment. HTWT has breached the Endangered Species Act and should not be granted a renewal of their permit.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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