Comments on: Bob Barker Pledges $1.5 Million To Move LA Elephant, Loses Fight

By: zibby

zibby — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:39:55 +0000

From the LA Zoo web site: “The exhibit covers a total area of 6 acres with 3.6 acres available for the elephants to roam.”

and they plan to add 3 more elephants – so, in reality it’s less than 1 acre per elephant.

And for $40+ million dollars? If the zoo was really about conservation it would put some of that money towards actual conservation of elephants in the wild. For comparison’s sake, the Kenya Wildlife Service — with 6,000,000 acres of that East African nation to look after, hundreds if not thousands of species and 33,000 wild elephants — had an annual budget of about $20 million in 2007.

Very sad – here is a great blog on the topic by Will Travers of Born Free http://www.bornfreeusa.org/blog

By: erin

erin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:44:24 +0000

I always like Betty White but not anymore. sounds like she’s got dementia. Honestly? she can SUCK IT.

By: jamie lynn

jamie lynn — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:38:37 +0000

they should send him here:

http://www.elephants.com/sanct.htm

i live in TN; maybe i’m a little biased. but they have over 2,700 acres for their elephants…

By: VeggieTart

VeggieTart — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:29:53 +0000

Quote: But zoo employee Karen Foley, backed by scores of high school science students wearing green “Save Pachyderm Forest” T-shirts, begged the council to “keep Billy where he belongs, with the family he already has.”

Um, what family? Didn’t the article say Billy is the only elephant there?