What YOU Can Do
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Pennsylvania Residents

CONTACT YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS

Click here for the action alert.

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Contribute to organizations that are conserving elephants in their native habitat - the only true conservation of elephants.

African elephant conservation:

Amboseli Elephant Research Project

David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

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 Asian elephant conservation:

 

 

 

www.eleaid.com - great site with lots of information about how to help save the Asian elephant.

 

 

Elephant Nature Park - Saving elephants in Thailand.

And read a blog about a visit to Elephant Nature Park here.

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Help plant trees for elephants in Thailand!

Click HERE.

 

CALL THE ZOO 

Call the Zoo at 215-243-5202 and thank them for sending Dulary to The Elephant Sanctuary and closing the exhibit.  Please ask Zoo Director Vik Dewan to do the best thing for Kallie, Bette, and Petal and send them to the PAWS sanctuary in California (read more about this wonderful sanctuary, where the Detroit Zoo sent its two elephants when it closed down its exhibit, at www.pawsweb.org ). 

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Donate to The Elephant Sanctuary

At our demonstrations, we have had lots of people try to give us cash.    Our policy is that we do not accept monetary donations and instead ask people to write and call the numbers listed here.    However, for those people who have already made the requested phone calls and written letters and have $$$ to donate, we ask that they contribute to The Elephant Sanctuary ("TES") in Hohenwald, Tennessee or the PAWS Sanctuary in San Andreas, California, the preferred homes for Dulary, Petal, Kallie and Bette.  Please find out more about TES and PAWS and what you can do to help at www.elephants.com and www.pawsweb.org.  THANKS!!!

 

 

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Elephants in the Wild

Learn more about how elephants live when they have freedom.  Below is a great website where you can sometimes see a herd of elephants enjoying life.  And then compare these elephants to the Philly Zoo elephants - if you can bear it.

http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/wildcam.html

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