Ban Elephant Rides in Florida
- by: Animal Advocates
- recipient: Florida Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission
Without Walls International Church is offering elephant rides on its property for the weekend of the Republican National Convention in Florida. Exhibitors who supply elephants for promotional events to make spectacles out of elephants have a standard industry practice of abusing and traumatizing elephants in order to "train" them.
Elephants in traveling shows spend their lives chained and intensively confined in tiny spaces. They are dominated through physical punishment with the bullhook, a steel-tipped weapon similar to a fireplace poker that is used to prod, strike and intimidate elephants into complete obedience.
To put traumatized, stressed elephants in dangerously close proximity to the public is simply asking for trouble. Since 1990, at least 14 human deaths and 122 injuries in the U.S. have been attributed to elephants. Many of these incidents involved elephants who are used for rides.
The Elephants in traveling shows spend their lives chained and intensively confined in tiny spaces. They are dominated through physical punishment with the bullhook, a steel-tipped weapon similar to a fireplace poker that is used to prod, strike and intimidate elephants into complete obedience.
To put traumatized, stressed elephants in dangerously close proximity to the public is simply asking for trouble. Since 1990, at least 14 human deaths and 122 injuries in the U.S. have been attributed to elephants. Many of these incidents involved elephants who are used for rides.
Tell the Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission to keep Florida safe from the danger and the cruelty inherent in elephant rides or any public contact with dangerous exotic animals. Ban elephant rides in Florida!
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Richard A. Colbert
Aliese P. "Liesa" Priddy
Brian S. Yablonsk
Charles W. Roberts III
Farris Bryant Building
620 S. Meridian St.
Tallahassee, FL
32399-1600
(850) 488-4676
Email the Commissioners
Without Walls International Church is offering elephant rides on its property for the weekend of the Republican National Convention in Florida. Exhibitors who supply elephants for promotional events to make spectacles out of elephants have a standard industry practice of abusing and traumatizing elephants in order to "train" them.
Elephants in traveling shows spend their lives chained and intensively confined in tiny spaces. They are dominated through physical punishment with the bullhook, a steel-tipped weapon similar to a fireplace poker that is used to prod, strike and intimidate elephants into complete obedience.
To put traumatized, stressed elephants in dangerously close proximity to the public is simply asking for trouble. Since 1990, at least 14 human deaths and 122 injuries in the U.S. have been attributed to elephants. Many of these incidents involved elephants who are used for rides.
The Elephants in traveling shows spend their lives chained and intensively confined in tiny spaces. They are dominated through physical punishment with the bullhook, a steel-tipped weapon similar to a fireplace poker that is used to prod, strike and intimidate elephants into complete obedience.
To put traumatized, stressed elephants in dangerously close proximity to the public is simply asking for trouble. Since 1990, at least 14 human deaths and 122 injuries in the U.S. have been attributed to elephants. Many of these incidents involved elephants who are used for rides.
Tell the Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission to keep Florida safe from the danger and the cruelty inherent in elephant rides or any public contact with dangerous exotic animals. Ban elephant rides in Florida!
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