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Saturday - Speak Up For Elephant Limba At Bowmanville Zoo April 27 demo, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. In Defense of Animals (IDA), the Kebek Animal Rights Association (KARA), and the Durham Animal Rights Alliance (DARA) will join forces on the zoo's opening day on April 27, 2013 to speak out for Limba. Limba is one of three elephants living a life of solitary confinement in zoos in Canada. This is a cruel sentence for female elephants who thrive in the companionship of other elephants. During the cold winter months Limba is locked in a tiny cement cell. If that wasn't bad enough, the zoo forces Limba to perform tricks in the circus and rents her out for fairs, parades, movies, commercials, and parties. Please help us send a message to the Bowmanville Zoo that Limba deserves better. It's time that the zoo retire Limba and send her to facility that can better meet her social and physical needs. What: Demo for elephant Limba

When: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: Bowmanville Zoo, 340 King St. E, Bowmanville, ON Bowmanville Zoo made IDA's 2012 list of Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants for housing a solitary elephant, archaic management methods, inadequate exhibit, and for maintaining an elephant in a cold climate. Keepers manage Limba with a bullhook - a sharp metal tool used to control elephants by jabbing, hooking, striking, and instilling fear in them. The undignified acts Limba is forced to perform do nothing to educate or promote the understanding of elephants, yet the Canadian AZA (zoo lobby) allows the zoo to exploit Limba for its own profit. IDA will provide signs for the demonstration, but feel free to bring your own. If you have questions, please contact: nicolem@idausa.org And please click here to help us help more animals like Limba.



