Where would you rather live?  A 1/2 acre zoo where you spend most of your time indoors due to weather and zoo hours?  Or a 2700 acre sanctuary, where you have the choice when to come and go, and you are surrounded by others like you?

One of our current campaigns focuses on Lucy, the lone elephant at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Now that Samantha has been shipped off to the US to be bred, it is even more important to get Lucy to a sanctuary where she can be a real elephant again. <Read more about Lucy> 

Local Voices:

Dr. Debi Zimmermann, a local Edmonton Veterinarian, myth busts the top 10 myths perpetuated by zoos.  Read her report here.

Latest News:

Lucy Has Nothing to Celebrate

The Edmonton Valley Zoo held a Summer Celebration Day on Sunday July18. 2010. Members of Voice for Animals, PETA and Zoocheck Canada held a demo at the zoo to let the public know that this promotion by the zoo is like a cruel joke for Lucy. Alone and suffering from a number of captivity related health problems it is a sure bet that Lucy has nothing to celebrate.

Lucy is now looking forwards to enduring another lonely, miserable winter cooped up in her tiny stall at the Valley Zoo. This confinement is slowly killing her as surely as it has killed almost every other captive elephant by the age of 40. Lucy suffers from arthritis and chronic foot infections – both of which are leading causes of death among captive elephants. In addition, she is suffering from respiratory problems and behaviours that indicate severe psychological distress.

So while the Valley Zoo celebrates in an attempt to bolster their bottom line, Lucy continues to languish alone and in pain.

To date there has been no decision by the courts as to whether the legal action taken by PETA and Zoocheck Canada against the City of Edmonton, in an effort to apply Alberta’s Animal Protection Act, will go ahead.

Lucy’s only chance for relief from her suffering is to be moved to a sanctuary.

 

 

Caught In the Spin
 

 

 

Dawn Dickinson of Grasslands Naturalists sets out in clear and beautiful prose the story behind the culling of the entire herd at C.F.B. Suffield and the steamrollering of public opinion by the Department of National Defense and the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS). This book details how base commander Colonel Keith Eddy and acting head of CWS Tim Coleman ignored sound science, stacked committees, hid evidence, doctored minutes of meetings, lied to and deceived the public they were meant to serve.

For the full book review and how to order your copy of the book click here.