AR-News: (AU) Greens push for elephant exhibit ban

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1055187.htm 


Green groups are urging Sydney's Taronga Zoo to abandon efforts to purchase 
four elephants from Thailand.
New South Wales Greens MP Lee Rhiannon says documents obtained under Freedom 
of Information show the zoo has been negotiating for the past three years to 
import two adult female and two baby elephants in exchange for native wildlife.
A former zookeeper herself, she says keeping elephants in enclosures is 
outdated and cruel.
Mark Pearson, from Animal Liberation, says the animals are domesticated 
through pain and fear.
"They're having their spirits crushed by this method, and the Thai Government 
acknowledges that this is a typical way that the elephants will be broken in 
or are broken in," he said.
"Any elephant which comes to Australia from Thailand has experienced this."







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