Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants

The matriarch of the Oregon Zoo’s Asian elephant heard wil be euthanized, zookeepers have decided.

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An Op-Ed by guest columnists Mike Keele, deputy director of the Oregon Zoo and Dr. Nancy Hawkes, general curator of Woodland Park Zoo.

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The Seattle Times prints 2 letters about Bamboo, one from an elephant advocate entitled “Well-deserved sanctuary.”

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Tami Kosch interviews Diana Kantor, President of the Northwest Animal Rights Network about the campaign to have Bamboo moved to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

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About 80 animal rights activists and community members protested outside a Woodland Park Zoo fundraiser Friday, asking that the 39-year-old Asian elephant Bamboo be moved to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee.

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Bamboo has become the focus of one of the most heated and bitterly debated controversies the Woodland Park Zoo has seen in years.

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If you feel the urge to the be civically active, come join in the “Free Bamboo” demonstration at the Woodland Park Zoo’s north entrance this coming Friday.

Read the full editorial in the Seattle P-I

2 Very interesting articles appear in the Seattle Times. One speaks to the financial aspects of how the zoo is run, the other is about the lack of education value in the WPZ elephant exhibit.

Read these letters in the Seattle Times

Keepers of an Asian elephant that died did not begin emergency procedures for more than eight hours after the animal was discovered in a sitting position.

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