Dear John,

Thank you for helping us in our unrelenting fight to free Minnie, the sole surviving elephant imprisoned at the Commerford Zoo. Last week, you helped us by sharing the letter sent to Governor Ned Lamont organized by the NhRP and signed by ten other animal advocacy organizations. You also helped us by completing the action alert and tweeting to the Governor to publicly call for the Commerford Zoo to promptly release Minnie to a sanctuary. Not a day goes by that the NhRP is not working to secure Minnie’s freedom, and we thank you for continuing to fight alongside us.

Today I reach out to ask you to please consider giving your first donation to the NhRP as one additional way to help free Minnie. Your donation today means we can persist with our grassroots advocacy campaign and continue to amplify pressure on Governor Lamont, other elected officials in Connecticut, the USDA, and the relevant governing bodies so they’ll have no choice but to publicly call for the Commerford Zoo to release Minnie to a sanctuary or take the necessary actions to thoroughly investigate the mounting welfare concerns for her.

Whether you can donate or not, please join Courtney Fern, the NhRP’s Director of Government Relations and Campaigns, and Gigi Glendinning, photographer, artist, and advocate, on Elephant Appreciation Day, September 22nd, for a Zoom seminar about documenting the suffering of Minnie and other captive elephants.

Please click here for further details and registration.

This is a collective effort we are a part of, and all of us can play a role in helping to free Minnie to a sanctuary. Please see all the ways you can help free Minnie here and give your first gift today.

Thank you,
Mickey Suzuki
Development Director, the NhRP

P.S. If you have given a donation in the past and believe you received this message in error, please let us know so we can correct our records.