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	<title>Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants</title>
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	<description>Out of the zoo - Into a sanctuary</description>
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		<title>Leading Elephant Expert Joins In Defense of Animals in Condemning St. Louis Zoo for Deadly Breeding Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following press release was distributed on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by In Defense of Animals. The St. Louis Zoo is currently home to Sri, who originally lived at the Woodland Park Zoo for 21 years. While the Zoo insists that it would be cruel to send Bamboo, Chai, or Watoto across country to The Elephant Sanctuary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2010/01/23/leading-elephant-expert-joins-in-defense-of-animals-in-condemning-st-louis-zoo-for-deadly-breeding-practices/</link>
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		<title>Hall of Shame earned by Woodland Park Zoo’s elephant program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Seattle, WA – Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) has been inducted into IDA’s (In Defense of Animal) Hall of shame.  Lack of space, captivity-induced ailments, and the deadly breeding program all add up to suffering for Bamboo, Chai, and Watoto.  This suffering in addition to WPZ’s search for ways to cut costs, begs for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2010/01/16/hall-of-shame-earned-by-woodland-park-zoo%e2%80%99s-elephant-program/</link>
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		<title>Joan Baez: Watoto, Bamboo, and Chai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joan Baez played a show at the Woodland Park Zoo recently, and stopped in at the elephant exhibit to get a first-hand look at how the elephants live at the zoo. This unanticipated and unsolicited article is her reaction. Here is an excerpt:
The elephant caretakers were kind enough to show me around the barn and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/12/04/joan-baez-watoto-bamboo-and-chai/</link>
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		<title>Zoo should close Elephant Exhibit to save money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ballard News-Tribune posted a great opinion piece about the conditions and expense of the elephant exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo, written by elephant advocate and FOWPZE co-founder Alyne Fortgang.
Woodland Park Zoo announced it will be closing the Night House exhibit in order to save money. It is reported that the zoo is cutting $700,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/11/20/zoo-should-close-elephant-exhibit-to-save-money/</link>
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		<title>India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A major indication that zoos are on the wrong side of history when they insist on keeping elephants in tiny zoo &#8220;habitats&#8221;, this article came out of the Associated Press this past week:
NEW DELHI — All elephants living in Indian zoos and circuses will be moved to wildlife parks and game sanctuaries where the animals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/11/16/india-to-move-all-zoo-elephants-to-wildlife-parks/</link>
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		<title>Dan Piraro Zoo Elephant Cartoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bizarro&#8221; cartoonist, Dan Piraro, created this excellent cartoon and commentary on zoo elephants.
Dan Piraro has been a supporter of animals and animal activists for many years, even participating in local fundraisers.

Woodland Park Zoo:  Less than one acre outdoors and Seattle&#8217;s climate forces elephants to be locked in small, barren barn stalls for 16 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/11/08/dan-piraro-zoo-elephant-cartoon/</link>
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		<title>Busy Summer Recap &#8211; Working to Free the WPZ Elephants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nancy has been doing banner drops with some of our wonderful volunteers since June.  They can be seen on the highway 99 overpass where zoo is located, three mornings a week.
Running concurrently is the same banner for our bus campaign that spans 6 weeks.  Look out for the buses until Oct. 8th.

We had two demos:  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/09/30/bsummer-recap-working-free-wpz-elephants/</link>
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		<title>L.A. Zoo Fined In Elephant&#8217;s Death</title>
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According to a press release from In Defense of Animals, the USDA has fined the Los Angeles Zoo for failing to provide veterinary care to Asian elephant Gita, who died in 2006.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has hit the Los Angeles Zoo with a stipulated penalty of $3,281 for failure to provide veterinary care in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/07/22/la-zoo-fined-in-elephants-death/</link>
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		<title>4th Annual Jungle Party Demonstration July 10th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your chance to say: Get the elephants out of the Zoo and into the 2,700 acre Elephant Sanctuary!
When: Friday, July 10, 2009, 5:00 – 6:30PM
 Where: Woodland Park Zoo NORTH entrance at N 59th and Evanston Ave. N., Seattle, WA
Be heard by hundreds of wealthy, influential zoo donors who will be attending Jungle Party, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/07/01/4th-annual-jungle-party-demonstration-july-10th/</link>
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		<title>Elephants In Motion &#8211; Watch The Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This simple yet powerful video was created in response to the Washington State Bar Association &#8220;Justice for All&#8221; YouTube video contest.

Please watch this video and rate and/or leave a comment if you have a YouTube account.
The People&#8217;s Choice winner will be the video that receives the largest number of views between April 15 and July [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2009/06/17/elephants-in-motion-watch-the-video/</link>
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