This is misleading. These elephants got to retire from "a life of hard work" at circuses and in film but you also lumped zoos into that sentence, making it sound like elephants need rescuing from zoos. The two elephants from Oakland Zoo were moved to the sanctuary because both facilities are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and share animals based on breeding recommendations or the animals' needs. In this case, Oakland's elephant exhibit needs to be updated if they want to continue meeting the AZA's standards for keeping elephants. And since their elephants were older, they sent them to "retire" at the sanctuary rather than at another zoo with younger breeding herds. So they weren't rescued like the video implies to make us feel all fuzzy and warm. These kinds of errors in reporting severely jeopardize the work of the very institution you were trying to spotlight.
EMPTY ALL ZOOS & CIRCUSES AND SEND TO THIS SANCTUARY OR ELEPHANT REFUGE NORTH AMERICA IN GEORGIA❤ OR PAWS IN CALI!! ALL ELEPHANTS ARE ABUSED IN THESE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS😢
Ok zoo spokesperson. NO ZOO IN NORTH AMERICA HAS PROPER SPACE AND RESOURCES to give natural setting & free choice access and breeding in captivity is painful, invasive, expensive, takes resouces from wild elephant protection. inhumane. Zoos are profit breeding centers who have "collections." These elephants are chained & prodded with bullhooks when delivering babies, most who die before 5 yrs old. Captive held eles are stressed, lack space, suffer from painful foot disease & health issues, are deprived everything innate & natural to them. More money goes to house captive elephants vs building & protecting WILD ELEPHANT HABITATS. Male babies are considered "surplus" and are sent to circuses or private owners😢 You are extremely selfish & child like to continue to justify support captive bred & imprisioned elephant. From the Detroit Zoo to Nashville, & soon to be Louisville, these zoos are retiring & closing "exhibits"... acknowledge the suffering and destitude and physical & emotional toll zoos place.
Chains and bullhooks haven't been allowed in American zoos for at least two decades. 54% of AZA-accredited zoos are nonprofit. And besides government agencies, zoos do the bulk of conservation work in the wild. Especially with elephants.
Rest in peace, elephant sweetheart Donna. She passed away on Christmas day '24.
Thanks to Carol Buckley and Scott Blaise for their hard work and ideas for the Sanctuary
We look forward to visiting these magnificent Elephants 🐘 ❤️
Fantastic and hoping more elephants get a chance to retire here . ❤️🐘
How beautifal such beautifal elephants god bless them all
Blessings 🐘❤️
What a gift for these majestic creatures.
Merry Christmas to all carers and the beautiful elephants ❤❤ great job.
Australia 🌏🌏🦘🦘
Good take care elephants v nice g job
excellent reporting/story! more of these please 🙂
Elephants are very smart and extremely compassionate.
Just heard Donna passed away very unexpectedly. RIP
They are treated better than this country treats our senior citizens
Hi Nosey!!♥️
I want to retire there.❤❤❤
Donna the Elephant died a couple of days ago .
I'm so sad that Donna has passed away recently 😢 RIP Donna 🙏🏻
Where?,,,,
Tennessee
This is misleading. These elephants got to retire from "a life of hard work" at circuses and in film but you also lumped zoos into that sentence, making it sound like elephants need rescuing from zoos. The two elephants from Oakland Zoo were moved to the sanctuary because both facilities are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and share animals based on breeding recommendations or the animals' needs. In this case, Oakland's elephant exhibit needs to be updated if they want to continue meeting the AZA's standards for keeping elephants. And since their elephants were older, they sent them to "retire" at the sanctuary rather than at another zoo with younger breeding herds. So they weren't rescued like the video implies to make us feel all fuzzy and warm. These kinds of errors in reporting severely jeopardize the work of the very institution you were trying to spotlight.
Elephants have also died there after arriving.
a lot of elephants in zoos suffer, 1-2 acres is not enough space and it causes arthritis. a lot of zoos are expanding exhibits or retiring elephants
So we keep animals in prison (zoo) for our enjoyment until they’re old! Would you keep your dog or cat in a cage 24/7 ?
So release them back into the wild?
@ How about a zoo built like the animal’s environment, most zoo’s have 1/2 to 1 acre or less for their elephants. How big is Disney World?
Elephant not native to us😂
EMPTY ALL ZOOS & CIRCUSES AND SEND TO THIS SANCTUARY OR ELEPHANT REFUGE NORTH AMERICA IN GEORGIA❤ OR PAWS IN CALI!!
ALL ELEPHANTS ARE ABUSED IN THESE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS😢
Ok zoo spokesperson. NO ZOO IN NORTH AMERICA HAS PROPER SPACE AND RESOURCES to give natural setting & free choice access and breeding in captivity is painful, invasive, expensive, takes resouces from wild elephant protection. inhumane.
Zoos are profit breeding centers who have "collections." These elephants are chained & prodded with bullhooks when delivering babies, most who die before 5 yrs old. Captive held eles are stressed, lack space, suffer from painful foot disease & health issues, are deprived everything innate & natural to them.
More money goes to house captive elephants vs building & protecting WILD ELEPHANT HABITATS. Male babies are considered "surplus" and are sent to circuses or private owners😢
You are extremely selfish & child like to continue to justify support captive bred & imprisioned elephant. From the Detroit Zoo to Nashville, & soon to be Louisville, these zoos are retiring & closing "exhibits"... acknowledge the suffering and destitude and physical & emotional toll zoos place.
Chains and bullhooks haven't been allowed in American zoos for at least two decades. 54% of AZA-accredited zoos are nonprofit. And besides government agencies, zoos do the bulk of conservation work in the wild. Especially with elephants.