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	<title>Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants</title>
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		<title>New Year Message of Hope from Lily Tomlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Lily Tomlin: My heartfelt thanks to everyone for their contribution—large and small—in the effort for Bamboo, Chai and Watoto to have a better life. Let&#8217;s hope 2012 brings them peace and finds them in a sanctuary where they can heal and reclaim being an elephant. Every e-mail you write, every donation you make to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/12/27/new-year-message-of-hope-from-lily-tomlin/</link>
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		<title>Woodland Park Zoo continues unethical elephant breeding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seattle, WA – Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) artificially inseminated Chai, a female Asian elephant, for the 59th time on December 5, 2011.  The previous 58 artificial inseminations over 20 years have all failed to produce a live birth. Hansa, the only calf born at WPZ, was conceived when Chai was shipped to Missouri to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/12/06/woodland-park-zoo-continues-unethical-elephant-breeding-2/</link>
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		<title>Reid Park Zoo to separate 2 deeply bonded elephants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Connie and Shaba have been together at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson for 29 years—Connie was 15 and Shaba was just 2. They have been deeply bonded since the day they were first brought together. Tearing Connie and Shaba apart is unconscionable. A fundamental requirement in elephants is being a bonded member of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/11/26/reid-park-zoo-to-separate-2-deeply-bonded-elephants/</link>
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		<title>Update: Toronto Zoo Board now supporting move to sanctuary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Toronto Zoo board has directed its staff to prepare to transfer the city’s three aging elephants to PAWS sanctuary in California by April 30, 2012. This endorses the Toronto City Council&#8217;s decision to send the elephants. http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/24/zoo-to-send-elephants-to-california-reserve Unfortunately, the elephant keepers are still resisting what&#8217;s best for the elephants by not allowing Ed Stewart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/11/26/update-toronto-zoo-board-now-supporting-move-to-sanctuary/</link>
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		<title>Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ground-breaking initiative on animal circuses announced on Capitol Hill. &#8220;There will be a time when people will be shocked that we ever allowed the suffering of these animals in the name of entertainment to continue so long. Elephants living in chains and being beaten; lions and tigers in small cages on trucks, being whipped to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/11/05/traveling-exotic-animal-protection-act/</link>
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		<title>We Say Goodbye to Bella, Tarra&#8217;s Little Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tarra&#8217;s little dog Bella has died. We hope Tarra will take comfort in the love of her elephant friends. Here is a video which made the unlikely couple famous! The following message is from The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee&#8230; My dear friends, I write to you with very sad news. Tarra&#8217;s little dog Bella has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/10/28/we-say-goodbye-to-bella-tarras-little-dog/</link>
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		<title>Toronto City Council overrules Zoo and Zoo Board, Orders elephants to Sanctuary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking strong leadership, Toronto’s (Canada) City Council voted 31– 4 to allow their elephants at Toronto’s Zoo to live out their lives at PAWS Sanctuary in California. The Toronto City Council overruled the Zoo’s interests and used science and compassion in making their decision to choose a life that is healthiest for their elephants. Like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/10/27/toronto-city-council-overrules-zoo-and-zoo-board-orders-elephants-to-sanctuary/</link>
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		<title>AZA finally prohibits bull hooks and &#8220;free contact&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After centuries of elephant keepers in zoos beating elephants into submission and compliance, AZA requires zoos holding elephants to adopt Protected Contact management. Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants is pleased that the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) has directed all zoos in their system to transition to an elephant management method called “protected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/08/29/aza-finally-prohibits-bull-hooks-and-free-contact/</link>
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		<title>Article: Elephant activists take their message to the air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ballard News-Tribune has a great write-up (excerpt below) about Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephant&#8217;s latest action, involving an airplane towing a banner over the zoo, reading &#8220;Zoo Elephants Suffer&#8221;: On Friday, July 15, the Friends of the Woodland Park Zoo Elephants took their protest to the air. Towing a banner with the message [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/07/16/article-elephant-activists-take-their-message-to-the-air/</link>
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		<title>Elephant Advocates Take to the Skies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this story on Komo News about tomorrow&#8217;s exciting event. (Excerpt below) Banner protesting treatment of zoo&#8217;s elephants hitting Seattle skies The local group crusading for the release of the Woodland Park Zoo’s three elephants will be receiving a little air support in their fight tomorrow when an airplane trailing a banner reading, “Zoo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freewpzelephants.com/2011/07/14/elephant-advocates-take-to-the-skies/</link>
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