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A number of juvenile elephants have also died in Ringling possession, not at the facility, but while on tour with a Ringling Brothers show. [15] It is likely elephants at Ringling's Florida Center may live longer than captive elephants in zoos, who live an average of 42 years, although not as long as wild elephants who, if protected from ...
White Oak Conservation, which is part of Walter Conservation, is a 17,000-acre (6,900 ha) conservation center in northeastern Florida.It is dedicated to the conservation of endangered and threatened species, including Indian rhinoceros, southern white rhinoceros, south-central black rhinoceros (also known as southern black rhinoceros), Asian elephants, giraffes, okapi, bongo antelope, zebras ...
Proponents of elephants in zoos argue that wild elephants walk long distances because of the necessity of finding water, food, or mates, but that captive elephants do not require the same amount of walking if resources are more readily available. [7] In the wild, elephant herds (particularly those of African elephants) can be quite large. [4]
Fewer than a third of the elephants in captivity are still young enough to reproduce, and the first live births of captive elephants didn’t even happen in America until the 1960s.
There's a petition to release elephants from the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, and Ojai recently became the first U.S. city to recognize legal rights for nonhuman animals. California can lead on this issue.
Former circus elephants are starting to arrive at a new wildlife sanctuary in north Florida. The White Oak Conservation Center announced Monday that a dozen female Asian elephants have already ...
World Elephant Day 2018. World Elephant Day is an international annual event on August 12, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world's elephants.Conceived in 2011 by Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest Pictures, and Sivaporn Dardarananda, Secretary-General of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand, it was officially founded, supported ...
Mare Noi was rescued from captivity recently, and luckily for us a new viral video shows her taking her first steps without chains in 41 years. Aaron Jackson has been documenting the many ...