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Born Free USA united with API and Australian rock band All India Radio have teamed up to spread the word about our work on behalf of circus elephants in the U.S.
All India Radio has given Born Free USA united with API rights to distribute the artistically haunting video to their newest single “Persist,” which documents the tragic death of Topsy, a circus elephant publicly electrocuted at Coney Island in 1903.
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Please Take Additional Action to Save Jenny the Elephant
Dallas Zoo officials recently announced plans to forego sending Jenny, thier lone African elephant, to Mexico. However, Jenny's fate still hangs in a precarious balance. Please help to secure her a swift retirement to The Elephant Sanctuary.
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Massachusetts: H 3841 Pet Shop Investigators
Bill Description: This bill would strengthen existing state law to create an agency tasked with the protection and care of domesticated animals and their sale to consumers. The effect of this law would be to expand protections for birds, mammals, and reptiles that are sold within the state or that are imported or exported from the state. A license or permit would be required in order to sell these animals at pet stores.
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Jenny the Elephant Is Spared Shipment to Mexico
Dallas, TX — After weeks of protest, the Dallas Zoo has succumbed to substantial public pressure and decided to keep Jenny, its only elephant, in Dallas, rather than shipping her to a drive-through tourist attraction in Mexico. Although sending her to Mexico clearly would not have been in Jenny’s best interest, Born Free USA united with Animal Protection Institute (Born Free USA) is joining other national and local animal advocacy groups in urging Zoo officials to send her to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, where she will receive the highest standard of humane care.
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The show may soon be over
“Ringling Bros. has been battling with animal welfare advocates for a generation or more, and a landmark federal lawsuit headed to trial in October could finally answer the question of whether rough, regular treatment of endangered Asian elephants by circus handlers constitutes illegal animal abuse. At stake is the future of performing animals in circuses, particularly this 138-year-old global institution. Circus officials say that if the court prohibits the use of tools like leg chains and the ankus (an elephant training tool that activists call a bull hook and handlers call a guide), they’ll stop touring with elephants — a feature that they admit is their biggest draw.”
The trial — API is one of the plaintiffs — is set to begin on October 20.
Dirty secrets under the big top
Steven T. Jones
San Francisco Bay Guardian
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