Help send Bamboo to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee

  • by: Emily Copeland
  • recipient: Deborah Jensen, President and CEO, Woodland Park Zoo
Please urge the Woodland Park Zoo to give Bamboo the life she deserves.

The Woodland Park Zoo has decided to sell off their Asian Elephant, Bamboo, because she is exhibiting neurotic behavior, behavior almost certainly caused by the zoo confinement itself, although you wouldn't get that impression listening to the line of zoo officials.  This has become inconvenient for the zoo, and instead of doing right by Bamboo, she will be sold to the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma.  The Woodland Park Zoo will receive a large amount of money in the transaction (probably in the six-figure range), which will come in handy for them and their hopes for a new parking garage.  But there is little hope for Bamboo.  At the Point Defiance Zoo, Bamboo would spend the rest of her life on less than an acre of land, doubtless dying early, as most captive elephants do, from arthritis or some other foot disease.  To be healthy, Bamboo needs a new home with room and freedom to roam and be herself.  She should be retired to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee with hundreds of acres to roam, instead of sold to another even less adequate zoo than she's in.  The Elephant Sanctuary has pledged to take and transport Bamboo at no cost to the zoo.

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