“Three months later, most surviving elephants have fled. Last week a plane flew over the Okavango Panhandle, an area in the north-west of the delta where most of the deaths occurred, and eight elephants were spotted, when normally you would see hundreds.” https://t.co/NzhHZ8Ykvn
URGENT: @USDA_APHIS, @USDA, @CTDEEPNews, please conduct an emergency welfare check on elephant Minnie at the Commerford Zoo. The zoo claims it can no longer afford Minnie’s food and veterinary care. More info can be found here: https://t.co/v6qdN4NtNl #FreeMinnie#rumbleforrights
“The report says ‘by any reasonable metric, the conditions of the transfer and housing of the Zimbabwean elephants are demonstrably inhumane” and "the export of 32 live elephants by Zimbabwe in October 2019 [...] contravened the will of the CITES Parties” https://t.co/4T5EbO8rLj
Chris Packham CBE adds his distinguished voice to STAE’s call to Save The Asian Elephants @DailyMirror article. We urge Government to act now as @ABTAtravel and its members relentlessly promote the cruellest of all elephant venues.
@ChrisGPackham@PeterEgan6
Image: BBC news
The pain and loneliness of a tourism elephant’s life is their daily tragedy, all to enrich @ABTALoveTravel companies. Please support STAE’s fight against this: https://t.co/mXuTvQkrTo
@stephenfry@BillOddie
There is enough #OffshoreWind potential off our coasts to power our state's economy 19x over! Let's see more commitments to renewable energy as we strive for 100% Renewable Energy ☀ 🌫 #go100ma
#InternationalTigerDay
Take action to protect #tigers in the U.S. who are confined in decrepit roadside zoos, backyard menageries, circuses & cruel cub petting operations. End their suffering! Pass the federal #BigCatPublicSafetyAct! Contact your rep: https://t.co/CEA0NGuyvZ
Dame Jane Goodall, global champion of wildlife, speaks out for STAE’s ever-louder call to ban adverts for brutal Asian elephant-related holidays
Join us and @JaneGoodallInst to help Save The Asian Elephants by visiting https://t.co/eKVOdGzIhu on how you can play your part.
A sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester has replaced a slave trader statue in the UK.
The work is officially titled "A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020" and depicts a woman with her fist raised in a Black Power salute. https://t.co/Qx42f7ntNK
The irony of her name is striking...#FreeHappy, please. Put yourselves in her position @BronxZoo@TheWCS and imagine your own suffering if you were unable to interact with another person for 14 years. Surely you must see keeping her imprisoned isn't justifiable.
After almost a lifetime in captivity, 14 years of which she has been forced to live alone, 49-year-old Happy deserves to be freed from her imprisonment at the @BronxZoo and released to @ElephantsTN or @PAWSARK2000. #FreeHappy
“A man who posed alongside dead big game animals has been appointed to a position in the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity and Conservation.” https://t.co/GguFqhb724
Translation of "Laid before the Governor": We don't have 1 second to spare, @MassGovernor --pls sign the bill now. #mapoli#VoteByMail2020
'As of 6pm, Thu 7/ 2: HB4820 - An Act relative to voting options in response to COVID-19
07/02/2020 - G - Laid before the Governor'
It's official: The City of Buenos Aires has signed a decree declaring that Kuky and Pupy will be future residents of Elephant Sanctuary Brazil! Due to logistics, their arrival is at least six months away, but we are overjoyed by this decision. More info: https://t.co/tjlkJB3WHq
"It's appalling -- we need to know what the hell is going on."
More than 360 elephants have died in mysterious circumstances in Botswana in the past three months, according to local conservationists. https://t.co/dVY02pM2o2
Interesting new findings from data collected in the 60's - male temporal glands are larger, consistent w musth observations: "It is highly likely that these outward changes reflected corresponding changes in the size of the underlying gland."
Read more: https://t.co/0sz4c9Z1tQ
New baby joins our herd! Baby girl Olorien is a female elephant calf around 14 months old. She arrived in the care of our Nairobi Nursery less than three weeks ago from an area that bears her name. (1/2)