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Notorious poacher who trafficked in ivory, rhino horns jailed five years

2022-08-20 - Toronto, Canada.

Moazu Kromah, 49, made millions of dollars poaching and trafficking elephant tusks and rhino horns from endangered animals and was ordered caged Thursday in New York. Kromah and two confederates were allegedly members of an African crime syndicate that engaged in a massive wildlife smuggling scheme. They shipped an estimated 190 kilograms of rhino horns and at least 10 tons of elephant ivory worth a whopping $7.4 million. The Uganda-based wildlife trafficker helped poach more than 35 rhinos and ...


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Thika, youngest of the three, explores the confined area just outside the African elephant barn at PAWS.

Toronto elephant handlers speak out about trip to California, their too-brief time at PAWS and losing the animals they loved.

2013-10-26 - Toronto, Canada.

Bob Barker may have called the Toronto elephant keepers �miserable� on Monday � in fact, he declared they should all be fired, but to those who participated in or observed the elephants being unloaded from their crates at PAWS, it was clear the zoo handlers played a key role in their safe delivery.


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Thika, one of the Toronto Zoo

Elephants from Toronto Zoo arrive at new home in California

2013-10-21 - Toronto, Canada.

Three elephants from the Toronto Zoo have arrived at their new home at a California sanctuary after a three-day road trip. A truck carrying Toka and Iringa arrived at the Performing Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) Sanctuary near Sacramento around 8:30 p.m. EDT. A separate truck carrying the youngest elephant, Thika, was travelling in another truck and arrived about an hour later.


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Asian elephant bull Nicholas in the freezing cold enclosure in the winter.

The Toronto Zoo Elephant Saga � The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

2013-10-21 - Toronto, Canada.

Lies reg TB at PAWS, lies and propaganda from animal rights activists, politicians, and media who failed to cover the story objectively. Harrasment of staff wo pere pressed not to tell the truth. And the victims, a group of healthy african elephants, exploited by ZooCheck, PAWS and others.


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Hauler criticizes Toronto Zoo elephant trip

2013-10-18 - Toronto, Canada.

A longtime elephant hauler is unhappy with the way Toronto Zoo elephants are travelling to a California sanctuary. Stephen Fritz said he has transported more than 70 elephants in 27 years and he would not have chosen to transport Thika, Toka and Iringa by truck in the fall, he said Friday from Arizona.


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Three elephants from the Toronto Zoo will begin their journey to the PAWS Wildlife Sanctuary near Sacramento, Calif. Thursday morning.

Toronto Zoo elephants to be moved Thursday morning: Union

2013-10-17 - Toronto, Canada.

Vice-president of CUPE Local 1600, which represents Toronto Zoo workers, Matt Berridge says they spoke with Active Environments, the company in charge of the move, and they have agreed allow keepers to come along as far as the U.S. border. However should staff wish to travel any further, Berridger says they would need to sign a non-disclosure agreement.


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Toronto Council hands zoo over to animal rights extremists

2013-10-12 - Toronto, Canada.

As you can see council has approved the allowance of 4 anti zoo animal rights groups to make decisions about the future of the Toronto Zoo. These organizations are 100% against zoos, they will begin systematically removing animals and exhibits and move them to their affiliated facilities as was the case with our elephants.They will start with all large iconic mammals, polar bears, bears, big cats and primates.


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Defence Department says it can"t help move 3 Toronto elephants until fall

2013-05-25 - Toronto, Canada.

The Department of National Defence says it´s still in talks to help move the Toronto Zoo´s three resident elephants to California, but says the animals will have to stay put until the fall. Animal welfare activists had previously said the zoo was in talks to borrow a Canadian Forces plane to transport the pachyderms to an elephant sanctuary in California.


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Media Release: Field Reports Indicate Slaughter of Elephants, Conservation Staff Evacuated

2013-04-26 - Toronto, Canada.

WWF and WCS have received alarming reports from their field operations that elephants are being slaughtered in the violence-ridden Central African Republic (CAR), where new powers in place struggle to gain control over the situation. The conservation organizations are issuing today a joint call for immediate action.


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Councillor vows to fight transfer of Toronto Zoo’s African elephants

2012-12-19 - Toronto, Canada.

A Toronto city councillor is vowing to do everything she can to stop the transfer of three aging African elephants from the Toronto Zoo to a California sanctuary, fearing their safety could be jeopardized and the zoo could lose standing with a national organization. “It’s never over till it’s over,” councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby told The Globe and Mail Wednesday. “My heart and soul is in this and I believe in doing the right thing for our animals.”


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Left: Lucy the elephant at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Right: One of the elephants at the Toronto Zoo.

It’s none of their business’: Edmonton mayor irate over ‘ridiculous’ Toronto motion telling Alberta capital what to do with its elephant

2012-12-09 - Toronto, Canada.

Hours after Toronto city council attempted to lecture Edmonton on proper elephant care, Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel angrily told the Ontario capital to mind its own affairs. “It’s none of their business to butt into our business. I don’t appreciate it at all,” he said in a noticeably agitated preamble to a Wednesday night council meeting.

On Tuesday, Toronto city councillors agreed to ship its zoo’s three elephants south and approved a resolution...


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California sanctuary ‘not suitable’ for Toronto’s elephants, zoo’s CEO says

2012-11-22 - Toronto, Canada.

The California sanctuary slated as the next home for the Toronto Zoo’s three remaining elephants “isn’t suitable” because it has a problem with tuberculosis, says the zoo’s CEO in a report set to go before city council next week. The report from John Tracogna says that a due diligence review of PAWS by the zoo resulted in the sanctuary not providing all the medical records the zoo has asked for. The zoo also has concerns about steps PAWS has taken to contain tube...


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Toronto ground zero for battle over future of elephants in zoos

2012-11-09 - Toronto, Canada.

For the past year and a half, a fierce battle has raged over whether three African elephants should stay in their decades-old home at the Toronto Zoo. But it’s a battle that some experts say is now at the centre of a larger North American debate about the future of elephants in zoos. Since the facility opened in 1974, the Toronto Zoo has always had elephants.


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An elephant photographed at the Toronto Zoo in May 2012.

Time to clean up Toronto elephant mess

2012-11-08 - Toronto, Canada.

Toronto council has been debating for over a year whether to move three elephants from the Toronto Zoo to an animal sanctuary in California. In the process, it has managed to lose our zoo’s international accreditation with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). We always thought the people best-equipped to decide the fate of these elephants were the experts the zoo hires to look after them. But apparently not, since last October a majority of councillors chose to ignore their recomm...


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African elephants at the Toronto Zoo.

Executive Committee votes to let zoo staff decide where elephants should go

2012-11-06 - Toronto, Canada.

The Executive Committee has voted to have Toronto Zoo staff decide where their three remaining elephants should be relocated. They said that elephants should be moved as soon as possible. The meeting was held late Monday evening after the committee spent most of the day hearing from the public on the possibility of bringing a casino to Toronto.


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Toronto Zoo Issued Notice of Potential Legal Action from TB-infected PAWS Facility. In 2002, PAWS spent $67,000 in legal fees using Animal Rights Activists money, how much over the last ten years?

2012-10-26 - Toronto, Canada.

The Board of Management of the Toronto Zoo has received a letter from the Performing Animal Welfare Society´s (PAWS) American attorneys threatening legal action against the Toronto Zoo and certain individuals arising from a Status Report update in September. On September 25, 2012, the Zoo´s CEO and Senior Veterinarian issued an Elephant Transfer Status Report to the Board of Management to update the Board on the progress of the transfer and to explain the outstanding issues regarding...


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Elephant in the snow at PAWS

Elephant researcher Joyce Poole defending sending healthy Toronto elephants to TB infected PAWS "Santuary"

2012-10-12 - Toronto, Canada.

On ElephantVoice Facebook page, elephant researcher Joyce Poole is defending the document she signed as scientist, supporting Toronto to send their elephants to a Tuberculosis infected "sanctuary" where several elephants have died, being positive for TB, the latest elephant 29 year old Sabu, survived 1,5 years.


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The Toronto Zoo

Toronto Zoo elephants still here almost a year after council ordered their departure. The animal rights group seeking to move them to a California sanctuary claims the zoo has thrown up yet another roadblock to their departure. Some zoo officials are quietly holding out hope the elephants could be moved to the National Elephant Center in Florida, an as yet unbuilt sanctuary-like setting where breeding will take place.

2012-09-25 - Toronto, Canada.

It’s been nearly a year since Toronto City Council voted to send the zoo’s three remaining elephants to a California sanctuary, but a departure date still hasn’t been set. With Toronto Zoo officials expected to hold a news conference Tuesday updating the situation on its trio of aging female pachyderms, the animal rights group seeking to move them to a California sanctuary claims the zoo has thrown up yet another roadblock to their departure.


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An elephant at the Toronto Zoo.

It Is Too Hot For African Elephants… In Canada

2012-07-23 - Toronto, Canada.

Three female African elephants named Iringa, Toka, and Thika live at the Toronto Zoo. Last summer, the Zoo’s board decided the trio would be moved to greener pastures, settling on the Performing Animal Welfare Society‘s 80-acre sanctuary in California. The 42, 41, and 30 year old elephants were set to move at the end of next week, but plans were postponed at the last minute. According to the CBC, Canada in the summer is just too hot for these African elephants, whose natural range consists o...


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Zoo’s demand to sanctuary could be an elephant-sized deal-breaker

2012-05-04 - Toronto, Canada.

Toronto zoo is insisting on what appears to be a deal-breaker: TB status reports on all wildlife, including deer and stray cats, found on the 2,300-acre site. There’s no time limit specified. “That’s not going to happen,” PAWS co-director Ed Stewart said Wednesday. “No request like that has ever been made of us — or anyone else. It’s above and beyond ridiculous, and it’s totally insulting.”


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Toronto elephants’ transfer at ‘impasse’ over PAWS medical records, zoo says

2012-04-30 - Toronto, Canada.

Reacting to a Saturday story in the Star that suggested the zoo is stalling or trying to block the transfer of three aging female elephants to the PAWS sanctuary, the zoo issued a release Monday evening accusing the sanctuary of refusing to hand over medical records for the eight elephants it has at its site. “Without this information zoo management is unable to fulfill its due diligence,” the release says.


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Toronto Zoo loses international accreditation. Decision could have impact on future loans of animals from other zoos

2012-04-18 - Toronto, Canada.

The decision by Toronto city council to send three elephants from the Toronto Zoo to an animal sanctuary in California has apparently cost the Toronto facility its international accreditation with the Aquarium and Zoos Association (AZA). There was never any question of the Toronto Zoo´s animal care, governance was the key issue, ohn Tracogna, CEO of Toronto Zoo said.


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CUPE Local 1600 compelled to respond to Zoocheck"s public statements regarding quarantine procedures at PAWS

2012-02-15 - Toronto, Canada.

Examination of Zoocheck´s statements reveals that PAWS appears to be no different than the standard in place at the majority of accredited zoological institutions in North America. CUPE Local 1600 queries Zoocheck´s assertion, and would welcome verification, with specifics. In addition, Zoocheck makes the claim that the Toronto Zoo´s African elephants are not at risk of contracting disease at the PAWS sanctuary," Ankenman continues. "With all due respect, no one can make this c...


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Animal lover fears Toronto’s elephants risk infection at their new home

2012-01-16 - Toronto, Canada.

While many activists are applauding the decision by Toronto City Council to move the Toronto Zoo’s elephants to a California sanctuary, one animal lover warns it might not be in the best interest of the pachyderms. Michael Hackenberger, the Director of the Bowmanville Zoo alleges the PAWS sanctuary where they’re being moved to is home to elephants with tuberculosis and herpes.


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The Toronto Zoo Elephants are in trouble. (TB elephant dead at PAWS)

2012-01-16 - Toronto, Canada. Peter Dickinson

Were the councillors kept in the dark over the TB question? How open has this sanctuary been with its medical records? If it were an AZA approved collection (which it isn´t) then these records would be available. It is to an approved AZA collection that the Toronto Zoo staff wanted to send the animals they loved and cared about. Now they have another nightmare of worry.


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Africa elephants at the Toronto Zoo.

Toronto Zoo’s accreditation could be in jeopardy

2011-11-25 - Toronto, Canada.

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) are threatening to pull Toronto Zoo’s accreditation over the city´s decision to transfer three of its elephants to a sanctuary in California. Toronto city council voted 31-4 on Oct. 25 to transfer the elephants from the zoo to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in San Andreas. The climate at the new location would be much more suitable for these large land mammals. AZA and CAZA...


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Let Toronto Zoo Experts Decide the Best New Home For Their Elephants. Sign petition

2011-11-07 - Toronto, Canada.

Back on May 12th a decision was made by the Toronto Zoo Board of Management to send the zoo´s three Elephants to another accredited facility. On Oct 25th this decision was overturned in a surprise last minute motion by a Toronto City Councilor. Please sign this petition to help us urge Toronto City Council to change this motion to allow the elephant experts at the Toronto Zoo to research and decide which facility is best for these elephants taking all of their physical and psychological ne...


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CUPE 1600 questions proposed Toronto elephant transfer

2011-11-02 - Toronto, Canada.

CUPE 1600, representing workers at the Toronto Zoo, can no longer remain silent on the issue of transferring the zoo’s three aged elephants to a private sanctuary in California. “What the council did was an ‘end run’ around the duly constituted Toronto Zoo Board of Management, who, to their credit, were doing due diligence to find the best possible place for our beloved animals,” said Grant Ankenman, president of CUPE local 1600.


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Toronto City Hall ‘not qualified to make the decision’ on elephants’ futures: Toronto Zoo staff

2011-10-26 - Toronto, Canada.

A senior elephant keeper at the Toronto Zoo is “begging” city council to reconsider its decision to send its three aging pachyderms to an 80-acre sanctuary in California. In an unexpected, and unusual move, city council voted late Tuesday to seize control of the fate of Toka, Thika and Iringa away from the Zoo board, which had decided earlier this year to place the animals in a facility accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.


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Tara the elephant died at the Toronto Zoo in November of 2009. She was the zoos fourth elephant to die in the past four years. A Scarborough councillor and zoo board member is proposing the live elephant exhibit be replaced with an interactive one

Councillor proposes Toronto zoo replace real elephants with interactive displays. Fourth elephant death in four years prompts concerns

2010-03-04 - Toronto, Canada.

The Toronto Zoo should replace its live elephant habitat with an interactive display that has everything to satisfy a visitors curiosity about elephants - except the elephants themselves, according to zoo board member Glenn De Baeremaeker.


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Toronto Elephant´s death still a mystery

2009-12-04 - Toronto, Canada.

What killed the matriarch of the Toronto Zoos dwindling elephant herd? Toronto Zoo officials said yesterday even after the post-mortem on Tara the elephant, they still dont know what killed the 41-year-old pachyderm. Eric Cole, animal care supervisor of the zoos African savannah pavilion, said the post-mortem didnt find anything obvious to indicate cause of death. They did find some gallstones but those are to be expected at Taras age, he said.


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Tara the elephant.

Tara the elephant dies at Toronto Zoo

2009-11-30 - Toronto, Canada.

An elephant at the Toronto Zoo died this morning after zoo staff found her lying down, unable to stand up. Tara, the 41-year-old "matriarch" of the elephant herd, had not exhibited any recent health concerns, Eric Cole, supervisor of the zoo's African Savanna, said. She was found by animal care staff shortly before 8 a.m. Monday morning, who tried in vain to lift the 8,500-pound animal back onto her feet. They were unable to hoist her back up, and she died at 11 a.m.


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Gentlest elephant dies at Toronto Zoo

2009-06-14 - Toronto, Canada. Katherine Laidlaw

An African elephant living at the Toronto Zoo died Saturday after another elephant knocked her over as the herd scrambled for its hay at feeding time. Tessa, the 40-year-old elephant who lived at the zoo since its opening in 1974, lived with four other elephants in the five-acre enclosure. On Saturday afternoon, the elephants were outside being fed when Tessa fell to the ground and couldn’t stand up again.


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Those who knew her will never forget Tequila the elephant. Pretty female joined Toronto Zoo when it opened in 1974

2008-09-06 - Toronto, Canada. Anthony Reinhart, Eric Cole, Toronto Zoo

Sure as the sun rose each morning, Tequila the African elephant could be found lumbering about her enclosure, eager to fortify her imposing bulk with a bale of hay for breakfast. Such had been her routine since the summer of 1974, when the young orphan from Mozambique took up residence with the rest of the elephants at the newly opened Toronto Zoo. When the zoo's elephant keepers reported for work on Tuesday, they expected no different. But there was nothing routine about what they found in the ...


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Toronto Zoo, and its elephants, mourn Tequila

2008-09-03 - Toronto, Canada. Danielle Wong

The surprise death of a Toronto Zoo elephant yesterday offered a fresh challenge for veterinarian staff who have learned that elephants, like humans, mourn the death of their loved ones. When Thika found her mother, a 38-year-old African elephant named Tequila, dead early at the zoo’s outdoor elephant exhibit, she stayed beside the body for four hours. Thika even started digging at the ground and throwing dirt on her mother’s body, as if hoping to get any response at all. It wasn’t until T...


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Peter Beard, Uncensored: A Rollicking Interview with the Photography King

2008-07-17 - Toronto, Canada. Ben Kaplan

This year the Pirelli Calendar has 52 pages of what you might call the elephant metaphor. The entire ecology of the elephant is more similar to us [and our fate] than any other animal – adapting to the damage we both cause eating sand cookies, while elephants eat wood. It seems we are next. This feeling is portrayed in Africa, in the Okavanga Swamp area, with African elephants of circus background and dangerous-looking humorous sittings, with lots of beauty thanks to the outstanding top ten mo...


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Zoo looks to change its mandate. Conservation rather than entertainment may be in Toronto Zoo"s future

2008-03-11 - Toronto, Canada. DAVID NICKLE

More room for the elephants, a new education learning centre and funding for research into the lives and possible longevity of polar bears are some of the things that $250 million could buy the Toronto Zoo. The money will go to several projects within and outside the zoo. The largest sum, $107.8 million, will go to redeveloping the north zoo site, the animal health centre and increasing the size of the elephant paddock. The zoo wants to spend $21.5 million on an education learning centre and $24...


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Elephants semen stirs controversy for zoo. Is Toronto"s big Rex to blame for demise of Hansa in Seattle?

2007-12-07 - Toronto, Canada. Randy Boswell

A Canadian zoo is at the centre of a bizarre cross-border controversy after animal-rights advocates in Washington state urged American wildlife officials to halt a planned U.S.-bound shipment of semen from a Canadian elephant suspected of having bad seed. Biologists at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle are seeking sperm from 39-year-old Rex, an Asian elephant at the African Lion Safari west of Toronto to impregnate 29-year-old Chai, who recently lost her six-year-old daughter Hansa to a newly discove...


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Hooked on the Show

2007-03-15 - Toronto, Canada. JACK BOLAND

Whether its fishing, camping, canoeing, hiking, rock climbing, flying wet dogs or elephant rides, going to the Toronto Sportmens Show has always been a Meinzinger family's annual tradition. Wearing the family's backpack, Howie Meinzinger, 52, took a break yesterday between scouting out a fishing trip for his curling buddies and checking out new fishing gear to watch his teenage daughter and son take a ride on Limba, a 44-year -old female elephant from the Bowmanville Zoo.


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Elephants at the Metro Toronto zoo

Elephants at the Metro Toronto Zoo

2006-10-20 - Toronto, Canada. Loops666

Elephants at the Toronto zoo! This was a behind-the-scenes tour for employees, as part of our Bush Camp I don't know if it works the same way for the public.


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Toronto Zoo elephants need new home, Current facilities cause stress and disease, says Barbara Gowdy, author of "The white bone"

2006-08-24 - Toronto, Canada. Barbara Gowdy

Remember Patsy? She's the African elephant matriarch who was euthanized a month ago at the Toronto Zoo. As described by the media, hers was a touching and inevitable death. She was 40, after all, and according to zoo CEO, Calvin White, "40 is fairly old for an elephant." Which makes you wonder: Considering that zoos tend to be poacher-free, drought-free zones, why don't zoo elephants live longer?


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Burying the elephant Patsy

2006-07-29 - Toronto, Canada. CURTIS RUSH

Patsy, the 40-year-old African elephant who had arthritis so bad it was tough for her to walk, was put to sleep Monday night, and buried in an unmarked grave Tuesday at a remote location at the Toronto Zoo. The last time an elephant died at the Toronto Zoo, the bones ended up at the Royal Ontario Museum. With no room left at the ROM for Patsy, her grave will be left undisturbed.


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Patsy, matriarch of Toronto Zoos elephant herd, dies with arthritis at 40

2006-07-25 - Toronto, Canada. Anne Winstanley

Patsy the elephant has died at the age of 40. The matriarch of the Toronto Zoo's elephant herd for 33 years, CEO Cal White says she was euthanized after a period of failing health due to long term degenerative arthritis.


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Bowmanville Zoo in court after Toronto puts out unwelcome mat for elephants

2006-05-17 - Toronto, Canada.

Michael Hackenberger, director and part owner of the Bowmanville Zoo were acquitted Wednesday on a charge of breaking a Toronto bylaw by having two elephants appear at a fundraiser in October. Had he been convicted of having prohibited animals within city boundaries, Hackenberger could have faced a fine of $10,000 per elephant or six months in jail. "We're just delighted with the decision," said Hackenberger, just after Justice of the Peace Kevin Madigan ruled for their acquittal at the Toronto ...


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Big-hearted Angus dies a month before returning to South African home

2006-01-10 - Toronto, Canada. ERIC REGULY

Angus, the world's biggest captive elephant, has died only a month before he was to be flown from Canada to South Africa, his homeland, and set free in a game reserve. The 27-year-old elephant, who weighed more than seven tonnes, or as much as six small cars, was found dead on the floor of his heated barn on Sunday evening by his trainer and owner, Michael Hackenberger. Angus was the star attraction of the Bowmanville Zoo, just east of Toronto, where he had lived for 20 years and given rides to ...


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Return from the ice age? Using ancient DNA, scientists are mapping the genes of a woolly mammoth, raising the possibility of cloning

2005-12-26 - Toronto, Canada.

Scientists have sequenced part of the genome of a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago, a discovery that raises the possibility of bringing the extinct ice age mammals back from the dead. Hendrik Poinar, a molecular evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, says ancient DNA obtained from the jawbone of a long-dead Siberian woolly mammoth could be used to create a modern version.


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GLOBAL ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD FOR ANIMALS: ISIS AND CGI TO BUILD A ONE OF A KIND GLOBAL SPECIMEN AND COLLECTION INFORMATION SYSTEM

2004-06-08 - Toronto, Canada.

The International Species Information System (ISIS), a global organization that serves the institutional, regional and global animal management and conservation goals of more than 600 zoos and aquariums from 70 countries around the world, has selected CGI Group Inc. (CGI) (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB) to design, build and maintain a next generation data management system. This seven-year, multi-million dollar information technology (IT) contract will facilitate the real-time collection and tracking of...


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47 Headlines about Elephants from Toronto2022-08-20 - Toronto, Canada - Notorious poacher who trafficked in ivory, rhino horns jailed five years 2013-10-26 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto elephant handlers speak out about trip to California, their too-brief time at PAWS and losing the animals they loved. 2013-10-21 - Toronto, Canada - Elephants from Toronto Zoo arrive at new home in California 2013-10-21 - Toronto, Canada - The Toronto Zoo Elephant Saga � The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth 2013-10-18 - Toronto, Canada - Hauler criticizes Toronto Zoo elephant trip 2013-10-17 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Zoo elephants to be moved Thursday morning: Union 2013-10-12 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Council hands zoo over to animal rights extremists 2013-05-25 - Toronto, Canada - Defence Department says it can"t help move 3 Toronto elephants until fall 2013-04-26 - Toronto, Canada - Media Release: Field Reports Indicate Slaughter of Elephants, Conservation Staff Evacuated 2012-12-19 - Toronto, Canada - Councillor vows to fight transfer of Toronto Zoo’s African elephants 2012-12-09 - Toronto, Canada - It’s none of their business’: Edmonton mayor irate over ‘ridiculous’ Toronto motion telling Alberta capital what to do with its elephant 2012-11-22 - Toronto, Canada - California sanctuary ‘not suitable’ for Toronto’s elephants, zoo’s CEO says 2012-11-09 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto ground zero for battle over future of elephants in zoos 2012-11-08 - Toronto, Canada - Time to clean up Toronto elephant mess 2012-11-06 - Toronto, Canada - Executive Committee votes to let zoo staff decide where elephants should go 2012-10-26 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Zoo Issued Notice of Potential Legal Action from TB-infected PAWS Facility. In 2002, PAWS spent $67,000 in legal fees using Animal Rights Activists money, how much over the last ten years? 2012-10-12 - Toronto, Canada - Elephant researcher Joyce Poole defending sending healthy Toronto elephants to TB infected PAWS "Santuary" 2012-09-25 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Zoo elephants still here almost a year after council ordered their departure. The animal rights group seeking to move them to a California sanctuary claims the zoo has thrown up yet another roadblock to their departure. Some zoo officials are quietly holding out hope the elephants could be moved to the National Elephant Center in Florida, an as yet unbuilt sanctuary-like setting where breeding will take place. 2012-07-23 - Toronto, Canada - It Is Too Hot For African Elephants… In Canada 2012-05-04 - Toronto, Canada - Zoo’s demand to sanctuary could be an elephant-sized deal-breaker 2012-04-30 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto elephants’ transfer at ‘impasse’ over PAWS medical records, zoo says 2012-04-18 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Zoo loses international accreditation. Decision could have impact on future loans of animals from other zoos 2012-02-15 - Toronto, Canada - CUPE Local 1600 compelled to respond to Zoocheck"s public statements regarding quarantine procedures at PAWS 2012-01-16 - Toronto, Canada - Animal lover fears Toronto’s elephants risk infection at their new home 2012-01-16 - Toronto, Canada - The Toronto Zoo Elephants are in trouble. (TB elephant dead at PAWS) 2011-11-25 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Zoo’s accreditation could be in jeopardy 2011-11-07 - Toronto, Canada - Let Toronto Zoo Experts Decide the Best New Home For Their Elephants. Sign petition 2011-11-02 - Toronto, Canada - CUPE 1600 questions proposed Toronto elephant transfer 2011-10-26 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto City Hall ‘not qualified to make the decision’ on elephants’ futures: Toronto Zoo staff 2010-03-04 - Toronto, Canada - Councillor proposes Toronto zoo replace real elephants with interactive displays. Fourth elephant death in four years prompts concerns 2009-12-04 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Elephant´s death still a mystery 2009-11-30 - Toronto, Canada - Tara the elephant dies at Toronto Zoo 2009-06-14 - Toronto, Canada - Gentlest elephant dies at Toronto Zoo 2008-09-06 - Toronto, Canada - Those who knew her will never forget Tequila the elephant. Pretty female joined Toronto Zoo when it opened in 1974 2008-09-03 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Zoo, and its elephants, mourn Tequila 2008-07-17 - Toronto, Canada - Peter Beard, Uncensored: A Rollicking Interview with the Photography King 2008-03-11 - Toronto, Canada - Zoo looks to change its mandate. Conservation rather than entertainment may be in Toronto Zoo"s future 2007-12-07 - Toronto, Canada - Elephants semen stirs controversy for zoo. Is Toronto"s big Rex to blame for demise of Hansa in Seattle? 2007-03-15 - Toronto, Canada - Hooked on the Show 2006-10-20 - Toronto, Canada - Elephants at the Metro Toronto Zoo 2006-08-24 - Toronto, Canada - Toronto Zoo elephants need new home, Current facilities cause stress and disease, says Barbara Gowdy, author of "The white bone" 2006-07-29 - Toronto, Canada - Burying the elephant Patsy 2006-07-25 - Toronto, Canada - Patsy, matriarch of Toronto Zoos elephant herd, dies with arthritis at 40 2006-05-17 - Toronto, Canada - Bowmanville Zoo in court after Toronto puts out unwelcome mat for elephants 2006-01-10 - Toronto, Canada - Big-hearted Angus dies a month before returning to South African home 2005-12-26 - Toronto, Canada - Return from the ice age? Using ancient DNA, scientists are mapping the genes of a woolly mammoth, raising the possibility of cloning 2004-06-08 - Toronto, Canada - GLOBAL ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD FOR ANIMALS: ISIS AND CGI TO BUILD A ONE OF A KIND GLOBAL SPECIMEN AND COLLECTION INFORMATION SYSTEM

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Third elephant tests positive for virus at Dublin Zoo

2024-07-10 - Dublin, Ireland.

Dublin Zoo has confirmed that a third elephant has tested positive for a virus which has left two other elephants dead over the last ten days. Eight-year-old Avani and seven-year-old Zinda died from E...


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Houston Zoo Elephant Receives First Ever mRNA EEHV Vaccine

2024-06-18 - Houston, United States. Houston Zoo

Tess, a 40-year-old Asian elephant at Houston Zoo, has been given the first-ever dose of an mRNA vaccine created by virologists at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) to prevent the deadly elephant endot...


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Blackpool Zoo confirms 2 elephants are expecting babies

2024-04-26 - Blackpool, United Kingdom.

The latest round of pregnancy tests at Blackpool Zoo has revealed that two of its elephants are expecting babies. Mother and daughter Noorjahan and Esha are both pregnant and due to give birth in late...


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RIP 2 year old “Chi Pich”

2024-04-02 - Sen Monorom, Cambodia.

There was sad news from Mondulkiri Province, with the death of 2 year old elephant “Chi Pich” being announced. Sources from the Elephant Livelihood Initiative Environment Organization (ELIE) said ...


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Popular tusker Mangalamkunnu Ayyappan dies

2024-03-26 - Kochi, India.

Popular tusker Mangalamkunnu Ayyappan, 55, 55, died at Mangalamkunnu in Palakkad on Monday. The elephant owned by M A Haridasan had been under treatment for the past few months.


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Pinnawala Orphanage sees birth of 76th calf

2024-03-23 - Kegalle, Sri Lanka.

The 76th elephant calf was born at the Rambukkana Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage on March 20.This baby elephant was born to 32-year-old she-elephant Shanthi and 19-year-old Pandu at the Pinnawala Elepha...


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SANParks partners with neighbouring nations to benefit communities

2024-03-23 - Pretoria, South Africa.

In the ongoing efforts to curb poaching and snaring of animals within the Zimbabwe and Mozambique borders, South African National Parks (SANParks) is working to create more partnerships with neighbour...


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Toledo Zoo Shares the Name of Precious New Baby Elephant

2024-03-15 - , United States.

After weeks of voting and thousands of submissions, the Toledo Zoo has officially chosen the name of their precious baby elephant and we're personally thrilled about the news! Ladies and gentleman, Ki...


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Reid Park Zoo welcomes new baby elephant

2024-03-09 - Tucson, United States.

A baby elephant was born at Reid Park Zoo. The zoo said Semba, the facility’s African elephant matriarch, gave birth to a 265-pound calf around 3:31 a.m. Friday, March 8. Reid Park Zoo said the calf...


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Baby elephant in Copenhagen named after Thai river

2024-03-04 - Copenhagen, Denmark.

A female baby elephant in Copenhagen Zoo has been named Chin after the Tha Chin river in central Thailand. The elephant was born last week in the Danish zoo. The zookeepers, who take care of the young...


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This elephant misses his mahout, authorities seek police help

2024-02-29 - Alappuzha, India.

Evoor Kannan, the elephant known for his murderous rage and with a history of killing two mahouts is in a bad mood these days. He had been gentle under the care of his former Mahout Sharath Parippally...


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Third elephant calf born in Beekse Bergen

2024-02-20 - Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands.

African elephant Punda has become the mother of a healthy elephant calf after a 22-month pregnancy. This is the third calf born in the Safari Park Beekse Bergen k in four months. Never before have thr...


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Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium’s elephant calf dies at age 2

2024-02-15 - Pittsburgh, United States.

The zoo said Tsuni died Thursday after a sudden, brief battle with elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV). Her EEHV was detected through routine blood testing on Feb. 8, even though she presente...


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Farewell to Seoul"s oldest elephant passing at age of 59

2024-02-15 - Seoul, South Korea.

The oldest female elephant in South Korea passed away Tuesday at a zoo in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, at the age of 59, zoo officials said Thursday. The female elephant, named Sakura, had suffered fr...


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A star is born: Baby elephant debuts

2024-01-30 - Bangalore, India.

The Bannerghatta Biological Park is brimming with excitement as it welcomes a delightful new addition—a baby boy elephant calf. This adorable arrival brings the elephant count in the Bannerghatta zo...


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Guruvayur Kannan, nine-time winner of elephant race, dies at 62

2024-01-27 - Guruvayur, India.

Elephant Kannan, of the Guruvayur Devaswom Elephant Camp, a nine-time winner of the festival-related elephant race, has passed away. His demise was around 5:30 pm on Saturday. The tusker's age at the ...


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A baby elephant is found dead

2024-01-27 - Koh Nhek, Cambodia.

Villagers found a baby elephant dead in Koh Nhek district, Mondulkiri province in the middle of the forest​ on January 26, 2024, suspected of being shot. Mondulkiri Provincial department of environm...


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Discoveries: The Evolutionary Edge of Elephant Trunks and Ancient Giants

2024-01-13 - Beijing, China.

A recent study published in the journal eLife has uncovered new findings on the development of dextrous trunks by indigenous elephants. According to Dr. Shi-Qi Wang, a senior author of the research, t...


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Alleged poaching kills 46-year-old Sumatran elephant in Riau park

2024-01-13 - Pekanbaru, Indonesia.

The Tesso Nilo National Park in Pelalawan District, Riau Province, again lost one of its Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) after a poacher allegedly killed it for its tusks. The 46-year...


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Celebration of Elephants: A Must-see New Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History

2024-01-11 - New York, United States.

In a narrow but sprawling curatorial space at the uptown museum, The Secret World of Elephants, now opened, tells the story of elephant species and their relatives through life-size models, videos, gr...


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