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6/29/08: Don't Send Elephant Jenny To Mexican Display Park

SOURCE OF INFORMATION / BACKGROUND

ХааMargaret Morin, Chair, Concerned Citizens for Jenny
ХааDallas Zoo's lone elephant to move to Mexican wildlife park
ХааJenny, the elephant, leaving Dallas Zoo for Mexico
ХааPETA Offers Dallas Mayor, Zoo Director, Others All- Expenses-Paid Trip to U.S. Sanctuary
ХааA NEW HOME FOR JENNY ELEPHANT

Jenny, the 31-year-old African elephant, will move to the Africam Safari Park, a 617-acre forested wildlife park located 80-miles southeast of Mexico City, zoo officials said today. Dallas News

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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

Dallas Mayor and City Council web mail:
www.ci.dallas.tx.us/forms/mcc/MCC_Mail_Form.htm

DALLAS RESIDENTS: Call/fax/email/mail your city council representative:
http://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

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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 Ч 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,

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