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From: Kinship Circle - kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Subject: ACT/ Don't Send Jenny To Mexican Display Park
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6/29/08: Don't Send Elephant Jenny To Mexican Display Park
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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 [at] 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:
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 [at] 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 -- 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 prompt 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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DALLAS CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR JENNY
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THE ZOO MAY SHIP JENNY TO MEXICO BEFORE THEY THINK WE CAN STOP THEM. PLEASE ACT FOR JENNY TODAY!
If you live in Dallas and will consent to your name being listed as a member of Concerned Citizens for Jenny, please email me your name, address, phone and in which Dallas district you live. The more Dallas Citizens, who are listed as members, the more influence we have for her. Here is a district map:
dallascityhall.com/government/council/adopted_map.html
If you want to join Concerned Citizens for Jenny and work with me to save Jenny, please contact me ASAP by telephone.
Margaret Morin, Chair, Concerned Citizens for Jenny
Contact: dogs_good [at] yahoo.com or 972-578-0370
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SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS
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Margaret Morin, Chair, Concerned Citizens for Jenny
Contact: dogs_good [at] yahoo.com or 972-578-0370
Dallas Zoo's lone elephant to move to Mexican wildlife park
Jenny, the elephant, leaving Dallas Zoo for Mexico
PETA Offers Dallas Mayor, Zoo Director, Others All-Expenses-Paid Trip to See a Real U.S. Sanctuary
A NEW HOME FOR JENNY ELEPHANT
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