The Faces of Captivity
Ely
Ely is the last remaining elephant in the Mexico City Zoo where she battles the daily struggle to stay alive. Ely is a former circus elephant who was bought by the Mexico City Zoo. Since her arrival in 2012 her health and well-being continually deteriorate. Her enclosure is made of concrete floors, which has caused joint pain – this pales in comparison to the vast lands she would roam in the wild. Due to confinement and the unnatural environment Ely lives in she exhibits stereotypical behavior which is a neurological condition prevalent in animals held in captivity. Ely suffers from a broad spectrum of health issues, among those issues is a skin condition known as ulcerative dermatitis. The lack of shade and mud/dirt in Ely’s enclosure has caused her to become severely sunburned on top of her already damaged skin. Please help her retire to sanctuary where she can live out her life with other elephants in natural surroundings.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated… and never forgotten.
Please keep Ely in your LOVE & LIGHT !
34yrs old/San Juan de Aragon Zoo, Mexico City
www.FreeEly.org
Link To Petition
Link To Fundraising
Happy
“Happy” is a 48-year-old, wild-born Asian elephant who was captured in Thailand and brought to the United States in the 1970s. She has been held captive in the Bronx Zoo since 1977 and has lived alone in a barren one acre enclosure for the past 13 years. During the winter month, she is intensively confined to a small cement cell.
She is the FIRST research elephant that showed self-recognition in a mirror experiment!
In 2018, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in New York Supreme Court demanding recognition of Happy’s legal personhood and her fundamental right to bodily liberty. Happy is first elephant in the world to have a habeas corpus hearing to determine the lawfulness of her imprisonment.
As this petition winds its way through the courts, the number of supporters for Happy is growing around the world. Her case, if won, will be a landmark victory for all captive elephants, especially those in zoos. https://www.nonhumanrights.org/
Lucy
Lucy has been at the Edmonton Valley Zoo for 42 years and turns 44 this year. This is an ominous milestone as zoo elephants rarely survive to their mid forties. Lucy suffers from a number of zoo induced ailments which will shorten her life expectancy. She has no other elephant companions, which is considered cruel by elephant experts due to their highly complex social needs. The harsh Edmonton climate is detrimental
to her health and painful for her ongoing arthritis and foot disease.
Lucy lives in a tiny concrete cell and is only allowed outdoors for short controlled walks, weather permitting which means many days she never
gets out at all. Link to learn more about Lucy.
Chendra
Chendra is a Borneo elephant, a sub species of Asian, who was brought to the Oregon Zoo from her home in Malyasia when she was around four years old. Almost immediately upon arriving at the zoo, she developed foot problems and it took many years before she was accepted by the rest of the female Asian elephants.
She exhibits pronounced stereotypical behavior, is blind in one eye and has a myriad of health problems, including active TB, so she is in isolation, an additional hardship especially for female elephants. She recently miscarried her first baby, and because she is on a cocktail of TB drugs, she was taken off all her pain meds, which were given her for her chronic foot pain and arthritis. Free the Oregon Zoo Elephants is working to free her to sanctuary. Link to learn more
Remembering Packy (1962-2017)
Link to Article: Oregon Zoo Kills Packy The Elephant
He was famous for having been the first elephant born in the Western Hemisphere in 44 years. At the time of his death, he was the oldest male Asian elephant in North America.
