Three U.S. Zoos Want Captured Swaziland Elephants
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org
FROM
Northwest Animal Rights
Network (NARN)
November 2015
ACTION
The Dallas Zoo in Texas, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska, and
Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas want to rip 18 wild elephants from their
families and home in Swaziland to fill their cages.

Just a few minutes of your time could spare these wild elephants a
lifetime of misery in a tiny yard and in a barren barn cell. But hurry!
The deadline for comments is Monday, November 23, 2015.
Please ask the Fish and Wildlife Service to deny permits to import 18
wild elephants to U.S. zoos.
Submit a comment to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Just one
line will do.
Click here to comment.
Make 3 phone calls to your 2 Senators and 1 representative.
Click here to find their phone numbers.
INFORMATION
Talking points:
- I am shocked that these zoos intend to engage in the cruel and
archaic capture of wild elephants for captivity. Science has told us
about elephants’ sensitivity, their intelligence, and their strong
family bonds, which zoos will tear apart.
- It’s wrong to tear young elephants away from their mothers just to
put them on display in zoos where they face considerably shorter life
spans than elephants in protected wild areas.
- Captivity is not conservation. None of the Swaziland elephants or
any offspring will ever be released back into the wild to help
populations in Africa. Zoos need to help protect elephants where they
live — that is true conservation!
- Culling has not been used in Southern Africa for two decades;
non-lethal management alternatives are now considered best practice.
Zoos should not be shamelessly exploiting threats to kill elephants and
pretend to be “saving” them.
- If you really want to “save” these elephants, then work with BGP to
find space for them in Swaziland or elsewhere in Africa — rather than
offering a cash incentive not to.
- Killing is NOT the only alternative to capture. Even if we believe
that elephants confined to a tiny part of Swaziland are doing
significant damage to the land, there are other protected areas that
they could be moved to.
- There can be no justification for harming elephants, including
conserving rhinos. A humane solution exists: Relocate the Swaziland
elephants elsewhere in Africa and keep them wild!
- Both Omaha and Sedgwick County are cold-weather zoos where the
elephants would spend significant time indoors, endangering their
health. All three zoos have limited space — nothing like the areas
elephants naturally need to thrive.
- Importing elephants from Swaziland has nothing to do with helping
elephants. It is a shameless ploy to increase zoo attendance, at a cost
to the elephants’ lives, freedom, and families.
Please share this widely. Let’s do all we can to assure a huge outcry
over this barbaric scheme.
Thank you!
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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