Kinship Circle
Share/Bookmark
SEARCH
Email List
spacer ALL ALERTS EXPERIMENTATION COMPANION FOOD-AGRICULTURE WILD ENTERTAINMENT FASHION spacer

ARCHIVE - Don't Send Elephant Jenny To Mexican Display Park

spacer THIS ALERT IS CLOSED.
It is archived to use as a letter-writing example or for use in background research. spacer
spacer Take Jenny Off Display And On To Freedom
Jenny, the 31-year-old African elephant, will move to the Africam Safari Park located 80 miles southeast of Mexico City, zoo officials said today, Dallas News. Ask authorities to instead retire Jenny to an accredited sanctuary where she can roam with other elephants in a natural habitat.



direct send
sample letter


go to petition instead
how to email a letter:
  1. Copy LETTER below. Paste into an email.
  2. Change some words. Sign name, address, country.
  3. Copy EMAIL ADDRESSES. Paste in TO: line of an email. SEND letter from your email program.
how to fax or mail a letter:
  1. Open sample letter as a DOC or PDF.
  2. Change some words. Sign name, address, country.
  3. Print letter to fax or mail using CONTACT INFORMATION on this page or in the DOC or PDF.
   

*****THIS ALERT IS NO LONGER ACTIVE*****
DO NOT SEND THIS ALERT!


Dear Mayor Leppert, Councilors, and Mr. Hudson:

I am extremely upset that city officials and the Dallas Zoo are set to retire African elephant Jenny, 31, to Africam Safari Park in Puebla, Mexico. Please send Jenny to an accredited sanctuary where she can roam with other elephants in a natural habitat.

Since the May death of Jenny's longtime companion Keke, 39, concerned citizens have rallied the zoo to relocate Jenny to a U.S. sanctuary. The 2700-acre Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee offers a 300-acre range for Jenny to wander with three other African elephants. California's PAWS Sanctuary provides hundreds of acres. Both are state of the art, acclaimed facilities.

At Africam Safari Park, on the other hand, Jenny would share a 4.9-acre space. She'd live an abbreviated life, constantly on display, without adequate space, exercise or social enrichment. Moreover, American welfare and anti-cruelty laws won't safeguard Jenny in Mexico. Why would the Dallas Zoo move Jenny to a foreign amusement park that can't possibly fulfill her physical and psychological needs � particularly when a nearby sanctuary with ample room would welcome her?

At age two, Jenny was forcibly separated from her mother in Africa. She endured another seven years of harsh training. During her 22 years at the Dallas Zoo, she was sometimes unable to cope with captivity. Zoo handlers gave her Acepromazine, a tranquilizer, from 1996 to 2001 to ease Jenny's aggressive and self-mutilating behavior.

She deserves respite from captivity, where elephants usually die decades earlier than their estimated 60 or more years in the wild. I urge you to take immediate steps to arrange Jenny's transfer to a refuge where she can forage on fresh plants and express natural instincts among fellow elephants.

Please let Jenny savor relative freedom in open space and organic terrain. An amusement park, even if AZA accredited, is not in her best interest.

Thank you,

YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY
contact information


go to petition instead
Most alerts have many email recipients. If one or more emails bounce that does NOT mean all failed.

Send failed email messages to: info@kinshipcircle.org Please do not send us hostile notes.
  • Official websites list outdated or incorrect emails.
  • Recipients block emails if swamped with mail.
  • A server may be down or not accepting email.
  • The email recipient's inbox is full (over quota).
  • Occasionally the same email works at later time.
email addresses only

*****THIS ALERT IS NO LONGER ACTIVE*****
DO NOT SEND THIS ALERT!
full contact information

*****THIS ALERT IS NO LONGER ACTIVE*****
DO NOT SEND THIS ALERT!


Mayor Tom Leppert
Dallas City Hall
1500 Marilla Street, Room 5EN
Dallas, TX 75201-6390
ph: 214-670-4054
fax: 214-670-0646
email: tom.leppert@dallascityhall.com
spacer Dallas Mayor and City Council web mail:
www.ci.dallas.tx.us/forms/mcc/MCC_Mail_Form.htm

DALLAS RESIDENTS: Call, fax, email or mail your city council rep: dallascityhall.com/government/government.html

Gregg Hudson, Executive Director, Dallas Zoo
650 S. R.L. Thornton Freeway
Dallas, TX 75203-3013
fax: 214-942-8095; general email: info@dalzoo.org

automated web petition


go back to direct-send

about web petitions
When you use the web petition instead of direct-send, your comments — and everyone else's — come from one place: Our website server.

WEB PETITIONS REQUIRE THE LEAST EFFORT, BUT SOMETIMES CAN:
  • Create a spam effect that angers recipients and hurts outcome for animals.
  • Compel recipients to block the entire petition, so no one's comments get through.


Your own voice makes more impact. Try to change some words in letter.

Subject:

Salutation:

spacer

To send this letter, enter your contact information:

First Name:  

Last Name:  

Email:  

Address:  

City:  

State/Prov:  

Zip Code:  

Country:  




Enter the code exactly as seen in the image:



SUPPORT EDUCATION Your tax-deductible gift pays to develop learning initiatives and mass print literature for educators, advocates, students… Together, we can spread the truth about animals!
source of information & references
DISCLAIMER: Information in these materials is verified with original source. Kinship Circle does not assume responsibility for accuracy of information or for consequences of its use. Nothing on this website intends to encourage illegal action in whatever country you are reading it in. Kinship Circle does not engage in, nor support, any form of harassment or unlawful action. Nothing in this alert serves to promote such conduct.

EMAIL ADDRESSES: Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During a campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. Email addresses obtained from government or other official websites may be outdated or incorrect.


Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr CafePress Store GoodSearch


spacer KINSHIP CIRCLE
Animal Advocacy  |  Education  |  Disaster Aid

info@kinshipcircle.org  •  KinshipCircle.org  •  KinshipCircle.org/disasters
314-795-2646  |  7380 Kingsbury Blvd  |  Saint Louis, MO 63130 USA

Kinship Circle is a nonprofit focused in: Animal Cruelty Investigation & Action, Humane Education, and Disaster Animal Response.
●  Federal 501c3 under U.S. IRS ruling, Public Charity Status: 170b1Avi
●  Tax Employee Identification Number (EIN) available upon request
●  Nonprofit Certificate of Incorporation, Charter: N00071626
●  PRIVACY POLICY