Dear John,
Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last week for our webinar on our historic Colorado Supreme Court hearing on behalf of elephants Jambo, LouLou, Lucky, Missy, and Kimba. In an era when attention is scattered and there’s no shortage of urgent causes to support, we want to reiterate how much we appreciate your thoughtful questions, the time you take to engage with our work, and all the ways you help advance the cause of nonhuman animal rights.
As I said during the webinar, ours is a long fight and a hard fight–as is every effort to change an unjust legal status quo that serves the interests of powerful, wealthy institutions like the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. These institutions would prefer for us to give up and go away. But that’s not who we are, and that’s not what we do.
You can watch and share the webinar recording here on our website. We expect to receive a decision from the Court in the coming weeks or months.
Speaking of powerful, wealthy institutions: the Bronx Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the zoo, have now closed their elephant exhibit for the winter. This means elephants Happy and Patty will be confined indoors in the “elephant barn,” with its barred and chain-lined cages, until the exhibit reopens in the spring.
