15-year-old Maia Sebek has taken it on as her high school project to campaign for the release of the WPZ elephants to The Elephant Sanctuary. She and her mother Mary talk with the host of Soul of Seattle on 1090am KPTK.
Check out this articulate, thoughtful young lady on the KPTK radio broadcast here
This supportive letter appeared in The Seattle Times in response to our recent press release with Lily Tomlin.
I am very thankful to Lily Tomlin for advocating for our Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) elephants to improve their present, unhealthy lives ["Cause for star: elephants," NW Tuesday, April 28].
WPZ claims it is giving its three elephants, Watoto, Bamboo and Chai, the best of care and I am sure that they try, but it is not enough. The zoo cannot give them what they don’t have and what these pachyderms need most, which is lots of space. The way they live now is as if we were forced to live in a bathtub for the rest of our lives.
Keeping them here when they could go for free to the 2,700-acre Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is selfishly wrong. It is time to do the right thing and let them go!
It is great when celebrities lend their names to causes. It attracts more attention from the media and, consequently, the public. Therefore, bravo again to Tomlin for speaking out for those who can’t: the elephants at WPZ.
– Claudine Erlandson, Shoreline
Comedian and actress, Lily Tomlin, speaks out on behalf of the Woodland Park Zoo elephants, advocating a move to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. This event was organized by Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants.
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