Urgent
Dear John,

Today the Nonhuman Rights Project sent letters to local, state, and federal agencies urging them to immediately investigate what the Commerford Zoo has publicly acknowledged is its inability to provide basic care to our elephant client Minnie as a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

The NhRP learned of an online fundraiser set up by the family that sold Minnie to the Commerford Zoo in 1976. With the authorization of the Commerford Zoo, the GoFundMe page seeks to raise $2.4 million to enable them to meet Minnie’s most basic needs, including food and veterinary care, because COVID-19 has “impoverished the farm that supports them,” which is “in desperate need of support,” according to the fundraiser description. Created over a month ago and having raised only $1,345 to date, the fundraiser states that Minnie “has been directly affected” by the lockdowns: “When the humans cannot work, the animals suffer too.”

Learn more: Read our press release [[link removed]] .

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Next
Thursday
we
will
hold
a
Twitter
Day
of
Action
for
Minnie.
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send
out
another
email
with
details
on
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virtual
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also
complete
this
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action
alert
urging
the
Commerford
Zoo
to
release
Minnie
to
a
sanctuary
if
you
haven’t
already
done
so.

For decades, the Commerford Zoo has profited from the forced labor of elephants. We fight for elephant rights because their lives and freedom shouldn’t depend on the mercy of human beings who refuse to see how their own interests blind them to what elephants actually need. Minnie needs sanctuary now.

Thank you for your support,

Courtney Fern
Director of Government Relations, the NhRP

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