PETA Opposes Sending Elephants To Turkmenistan

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 10, October 2010

 

The decision, part of an animal exchange programme, is a blatant violation of the Central Zoo Authority's (CZA) directive requiring that all elephants presently confined in zoos be shifted to camps, tiger reserves or national parks, PETA said.

 

'It's shocking that the government would allow and even support actions that would be illegal in India to occur elsewhere,' says PETA India's Poorva Joshipura. Read the full report here.

 

Source: Sify News, New Delhi.

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