by solea | Jul 27, 2022 | Elephants, MFE Actions/News
Thank you to those who joined us for the first installment in our three-part #FreeTheFresnoElephants Interview Series! We hope this interview shed light on the unjustifiable suffering that Nolwazi, Amahle, Vusmusi, and other captive elephants endure. As leading...
by solea | Jul 27, 2022 | Elephants, MFE Actions/News
Living with peers may help young elephants thrive, according to new research—a finding that could help elephants orphaned by poaching and drought. Read in National...
by solea | Jul 14, 2022 | MFE Actions/News
An exciting newly expanded act for elephants, great apes, and other captive wild animals is headed for passage in Canada. The Jane Goodall Act, first introduced in the Canadian Senate in 2020, has recently been reintroduced with added protections for even more species...
by solea | Jul 7, 2022 | Elephants, MFE Actions/News
Sissy the Elephant is 54 now. She is one of Texas’ most famous survivors. In 1981, when she was 13, she clung to a treetop by her trunk for 36 hours, treading water, as a deadly flood inundated the Gainesville, Texas, zoo. Now, a half-century after she originally came...
by solea | Jun 23, 2022 | Elephants, MFE Actions/News
“A gilded cage is still a cage.” – New York Court of Appeals Judge Jenny Rivera writing in support of Happy’s release from the Bronx Zoo Last week, the New York Court of Appeals issued a decision in Happy’s case and unfortunately chose not to order her release to a...
by solea | Jun 23, 2022 | Elephants, MFE Actions/News
On Wednesday, June 15, Henry Smith MP has introduced a landmark bill to Parliament, to ban hunters from bringing “trophies” of vulnerable & endangered animals into Britain. Named the Import Prohibition Bill, it would be the strongest bill of its kind,...
