From Nonhuman Rights Project <[email protected]>
Subject Happening today: #FreeHappy Day of Action
Date February 2, 2022 3:01 PM
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Dear John,

This week marks the 16th year Happy [[link removed]] the elephant has been held alone during the 45 years she has been imprisoned at the Bronx Zoo. She is confined to a barren enclosure with a one-acre yard in New York City, a wholly unnatural and inappropriate environment for an elephant. For the past 16 years, ever since her last companion Sammi died in 2006, she has been without the necessary companionship of other elephants.

After almost a lifetime in captivity, Happy deserves to be freed from her imprisonment at the Bronx Zoo and sent to an elephant sanctuary.

Science and human experience make clear that elephants are autonomous animals. They are cognitively, emotionally, and socially complex beings who have the capacity to exercise free will and make choices about how to spend their days and live their lives, just as human beings do. Forcing an elephant like Happy to live alone in a small unnatural environment, where she is prevented from exercising free will and engaging in her innate behaviors, causes physical and emotional suffering.

It’s time for the Bronx Zoo to send Happy to an elephant sanctuary where she can live freely with other elephants in an environment that is similar to her natural habitat.

While we wait for the New York Court of Appeals to schedule arguments in Happy’s historic [[link removed]] elephant rights case, you can take action to help free her now.

Actions of the Day:

*
Complete
this
action
alert
[[link removed]]
to
urge
the
Bronx
Zoo
and
Wildlife
Conservation
Society,
which
manages
the
zoo,
to
release
Happy
to
an
elephant
sanctuary.
*
After
completing
the
action
alert,
tweet
at
the
Bronx
Zoo
[[link removed]]
and
Wildlife
Conservation
Society
[[link removed]]
asking
that
they
#FreeHappy.
A
sample
tweet
is:
“Happy
has
now
spent
the
past
16
years
alone
without
the
necessary
companionship
of
other
elephants
during
her
45
years
of
imprisonment
at
the
Bronx
Zoo
in
a
barren
1-acre
lot.
It’s
time
for
the
@BronxZoo
and
@theWCS
to
#FreeHappy
to
an
elephant
sanctuary.”
You
can
also
find
sample
tweets
and
graphics
on
this
blog
post
[[link removed]]
.
Be
sure
to
include
the
hashtag
#FreeHappy
in
your
tweet.
*
Share
Happy’s
campaign
website
[[link removed]]
on
social
media
to
amplify
the
fight
for
her
freedom.
The
website
has
links
to
easily
share
on
Twitter
and
Facebook.
The
photo
gallery
hotspots
all
have
shareable
links
so
you
can
raise
awareness
about
various
aspects
of
Happy’s
story
and
the
fight
for
nonhuman
animal
rights.
*
Read
and
share
this
[[link removed]]
blog
post
on
the
other
ways
that
you
can
help
Happy.

Note: Most of these social media action items are designed for Twitter, the social media platform that most effectively brings our action alerts to the attention of the public at large. If you do not have Twitter or prefer to advocate on another platform, you can still help by sharing this blog post and the above action alert email [[link removed]] as a blog post and the above action alert [[link removed]] .

Thank you for taking action for Happy!

Courtney Fern
Director of Government Relations, the NhRP

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