Donate

Aside from participating in our public demonstrations, a financial donation is the most valuable contribution you can make toward helping The Woodland Park Zoo elephants. Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants and NARN are all volunteer organizations. Your donation is tax-deductible. Please give generously. For more information, go to our Donate page.

Volunteer

We have a variety of educational/awareness opportunities:

  • Handing out a kid-friendly fliers at the Zoo on weekends during the summer. We always have two volunteers at a time so you’d never be there alone.  You can sign up for Saturday or Sunday. June through September.  Do it once or do it often!
  • Banner drops. Twice a week from June through September, we hang banners off one or two of the overpasses on Highway 99 at rush hour.  The overpasses happen to be right where the elephant exhibit is located.
  • Writers who knows how to write for kids. We’d like help with writing a new flier.  We want it to be kid-friendly and on about a 2nd grade level.

Write to the City Council

If you believe Bamboo, Watoto, and Chai should live like elephants at The Elephant Sanctuary, please contact the Seattle City Council and the Woodland Park Zoo.

You can send letters or faxes to all members of Seattle City Council members below, asking them to support the immediate release of the WPZ elephants to The Elephant Sanctuary. Even a single-sentence message will have an impact.

Consider the following points when writing your letters:

  • The WPZ elephants have extremely limited space (less than 1 acre), whereas they would have between 200 and 2200 acres at The Elephant Sanctuary.
  • The WPZ elephants only have a few hours of outdoor access per day for most of the year. At The Elephant Sanctuary, they would have 24-hour outdoor access all year long.
  • Many elephants with symptoms similar to the WPZ elephants, have thrived at The Elephant Sanctuary with it’s hundreds of acres of varying terrain, fresh foliage, and water features.
  • The Woodland Park Zoo is managed privately but is still owned by the City of Seattle and overseen by the Parks, Neighborhoods & Education Committee.
  • Anything else that is important to you about the elephants!

Tom Rasmussen, Seattle City Council, Parks Committee Chair
tom.rasmussen@seattle.gov, 206-684-8808
Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council, Council President
richard.conlin@seattle.gov, 206-684-8805
Sally J. Clark, Seattle City Council
sally.clark@seattle.gov, 206-684-8802
Nick Licata, Seattle City Council
nick.licata@seattle.gov, 206-684-8803
Bruce Harrell, Seattle City Council
bruce.harrell@seattle.gov, 206-684-8804
Tim Burgess, Seattle City Council
tim.burgess@seattle.gov, 206-684-8806
Jean Godden, Seattle City Council
jean.godden@seattle.gov, 206-684-8807
Mike O’Brien, Seattle City Council
mike.obrien@seattle.gov, 206-684-8800
Sally Bagshaw, Seattle City Council
sally.bagshaw@seattle.gov, 206-684-8801
Deborah Jensen, Woodland Park Zoo President
deborah.jensen@zoo.org, 206-548-2416

All emails from above:

tom.rasmussen@seattle.gov, richard.conlin@seattle.gov, sally.clark@seattle.gov, nick.licata@seattle.gov, bruce.harrell@seattle.gov, tim.burgess@seattle.gov, jean.godden@seattle.gov, mike.obrien@seattle.gov, sally.bagshaw@seattle.gov, deborah.jensen@zoo.org

Or, write to each of the above council members at the following address:

[Name of Councilmember]
Seattle City Hall
PO Box 34025
Seattle, WA 98124-4025

Or, fax them at (206)684-8587.