The breeding facility where the zoo sent Kallie and Bette looks like a nice place. Whats your problem with it?
The Philadelphia Zoo’s latest plan for its African elephants is to send them to a breeding facility near Pittsburgh; their future after that is uncertain. These elephants deserve a forever home to enjoy freedom to roam on hundreds of acres, form life-long bonds, and be free from violence and intimidation. Only a sanctuary offers this. Bullhooks, instruments resembling fireplace pokers, will be used at the breeding facility to inflict pain and dominate elephants. Elephants will not have free access to the 724-acre property at the breeding facility; while outside of the two- to three-acre pens they will be dominated with bullhooks and confined indoors during the long winter months. . True conservation protects elephants in their native countries – it does not include breeding more captive elephants for display. American zoos annually spend an estimated $16 million to maintain fewer than 300 elephants. In addition, zoos spend tens of millions of dollars on elephant exhibits. If this money
