This simple yet powerful video was created in response to the Washington State Bar Association “Justice for All” YouTube video contest.
Please watch this video and rate and/or leave a comment if you have a YouTube account.
The People’s Choice winner will be the video that receives the largest number of views between April 15 and July 1, 2009. Please share this video with your friends and family.
Chai’s foot being soaked. She has suffered with foot infections for at least 10 years.
When: June 20, 2009, 11:00am – 12:00
Where: Woodland Park Zoo – Main (south) Entrance: 750 N. 50th St. (and N. Fremont) Seattle, WA
In Defense of Animals has set an International Day of Action to expose the plight of elephants in zoos all over the world.
Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants is proud to be a part of this. Please join us on June 20th at 11am when we ask Woodland Park Zoo to release Watoto, Bamboo, and Chai from their inhumane confinement to the 2,700 acre Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.
Read the full article in the Seattle PostGlobe. After getting through the first 2 paragraphs of WPZ spin, you come to the crux of the issue:
The complaint, filed by the Sound Animal Rights Alliance, stems from the death two years ago of the Asian elephant, Hansa. According to a press release from the group, the complaint includes a declaration from a veterinarian with experience working with elephants that describes the zoo as an “infected environment.”
According to the press release, SARA, a local animal advocacy group, claims that the Zoo violated the AWA by exposing Hansa to the Zoo’s African elephant, Watoto, a known herpes risk factor, thereby causing her death and by continuing to try to breed Hansa’s mother, Chai, even after Hansa’s death from herpes. Experts stated the young elephant caught the virus from one of the adult elephants at the zoo.
Join the chorus of concerned citizens and leave a comment at the bottom of the article!
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